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...separately, they are expected to participate in their College’s social life. “Being placed in a college immediately gave me a sense of community that was more intimate than just the general ‘Yale community’ love,” writes Mandi Schweitzer, a 2003 graduate, in an e-mail. Yale encourages this natural sense of community within the college with financial resources. To create opportunities for socializing, says sophomore Erica Baller, “colleges have a lot of money set aside for activities...
...cotton farmers and how they suffer because Western nations subsidize their own. Such topics "are not poetic," she says. "I may be thinking about the situation between developed countries and undeveloped countries, but you will never hear those words in my songs." So, on Kèlè Mandi, whose haunting admonitions make it a highlight, Traoré just sings about human interaction: "Give me a bit of what you are/ But do it with gentleness and tolerance." Traoré's spare arrangements use a variety of instruments, including a calabash harp called the bolon, an African lute called...
MATRIMONIAL BLISS The Balinese know how to treat their brides. Though marriage wasn't on my mind when I entered the Ubud Sari Health Resort, call (62-361) 974 398, I opted for the Mandi Lulur, a beauty treatment usually reserved for women on their wedding day. My masseuse led me to a garden bungalow, where she massaged my knotted muscles with aromatic oils, then polished my skin with lulur, a traditional exfoliating paste made from pounded rice, turmeric and local spices. After a soak in a rose petal milk bath, I finished in the cedar-scented steam room. Relaxed...
...brilliant contribution to the new collection of essays How Did This Happen?, Anatol Lieven tells of Pakistani Islamic radicals in the 1980s. They lived in a "semi-Western, semi-modern culture." They faced the threat of "sinking into the immiserated, semi-employed proletariat--with the hira mandi, or prostitutes' quarter, as the possible destiny of their sisters and daughters." It is men like those who may soon be tempted to venerate bin Laden's memory. We must persuade them to withhold the accolade; we can start by listening to their stories...
SOULOUQUE MANDI-MANSA...