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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This [the internship program] is our main thrust. Our other projects will branch out from that," Gray says...
...cross-word--and recently, a mis-labeling of a picture of Pforzheimer as "Cabot House"--got me thinking that there's at least the occasional expected slip-up in reporting and editing standards. Pavninder Singh '98 of Lowell House, in a complaint echoed by many Quadlings, said, "My main problem with the paper is that I don't get it every day." Well, I thought, distribution problems: every business enterprise has them...
...tore it apart. The revered practices of communal tradition have succeeded, better than any modern forms of psychotherapy, in restoring a sense of unity to Mozambique's deeply riven clans. "National reconciliation started in the communities themselves," says Roberto Chavez, the World Bank director in Mozambique. "They were the main factor in bringing the country back together...
This is not Africa, people will tell you in Eritrea. What they mean is that the country is astonishingly free of the social plagues that taint much of the continent. There is no tribalism or sectarian division here. National pride supersedes loyalties to nine main ethnic groups, at least 10 languages, Islam and Christianity, in part the consequence of the rebels' insistence on mixing everyone together in its army units and now in national-service teams...
...theology is deeply personal, more biographical than biblical. "My Old Idols" remembers the crisp erotic sting of a parochial school instructor wielding a pointer while drilling pupils in Greek: "Accounts of murder and sacrifice/ Only suggested the heavy price/ I longed to pay at his behest." Born on the Main Line, an upscale, old-money suburban Philadelphia neighborhood, McClatchy has an aristocratic tartness that comes through both in his stanzas and in his remarks about poetry in general, which he sees slipping into sloppy populism. "There are a lot of Sunday painters out there; they don't expect their paintings...