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...others, though, the sudden celebrity is an upside. Mark Strand, who served from 1990 to 1991, says that hobnobbing at cocktail and dinner parties was his favorite part...
...home turf, with the international francophone Scrabble circus having come to the Senegalese capital for the second time in its 37-year history. The country's sports minister has deemed it one of the most important events of the year, and the government commissioned a special Scrabble song to mark the occasion...
...Oxfam is hoping its flight to fashion will boost sagging sales. In 1999, its profits hit a high-water mark of $54 million but have been sliding since, down to $20 million last year. The slump is largely due to increased competition - not only from rival charity shops, but also from discount retailers like Primark and Peacock, which sell trendy new clothes at prices nearly as low as those found in secondhand shops. Says Sarah Farquhar, Oxfam's retailing head: "We realized we needed a different clothing-business model...
...with great regret that I noted the passing of Theodore H. White (MILESTONES, May 26). However, White made his mark not in Asia but in America. China has always been too complicated and controversial for anyone to make a lasting reputation by trying to explain it. In his coverage of American politics, White had few if any peers. William R. Brown Pittsburgh In the autumn of 1982 there was a seminar of old China hands on ''War Reporting: China in the 1940s.'' Teddy White was unable to attend and in a letter of regret wrote, ''We were all young...
...Joan Baez. This nightly ritual was the after-hours afterglow of the first-ever rock- 'n'-roll caravan for human rights, a six-city rolling tour of rockers, to focus U.S. attention on the victims of political persecution and torture around the world. Staged by Amnesty International to mark its 25th anniversary, the ''Conspiracy of Hope'' tour hopscotched across America by chartered 707 jet with the aforementioned lot, plus Sting and Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams, along with assorted one-night stand-ins including Bob Dylan and Bob Geldof. Very nice crew indeed, but really, aren't benefit concerts wearing...