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...read aloud to the nearly-filled room. “This is an unbelievably impressive showing,” said Grzecki before delving into selections from the book. This reissue is based on an original version owned by Gus Sousa, a rare book collector and resident of Salem, Mass. The ’Poonsters admitted in the foreward that the nearly century-old work might not appeal to readers with more modern tastes, saying that if the work was not their “‘best’ parody,” it was certainly their...
...crisp piano entrance recalls “Source Tag & Codes,” the glory days, which opens in the same way. The ominous repeated notes on the piano are joined by guitars and a hit of the cymbals, the combination of which then escalate to a mass of sound that is at once harmonious and overwhelming. Just when the threshold is near, it comes back down, daring you to listen again.The longer songs on the album, such as “Iris Unveiled” and “Halcyon Days” are symphonic in scale...
...proclaims Budi, a young Indonesian boy, at the start of Robert B. Lemelson’s documentary film, “40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy.” Such is the sentiment that now prevails over the long silence that followed in the wake of the mass killings which took place in the mid-60s in Bali—deeply embedded anger is passionately released, experiences of discrimination and pain fervently expressed. In a film both moving and disturbing, psychological anthropologist Lemelson explores the lives of four individuals and their families in Indonesia, and reveals their suffering...
...delays, the former Khmer Rouge officer Kaing Guek Eav—known to the world as “Duch”—has finally been brought to trial.While in charge of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison camp in the late 1970s, Duch oversaw the systematic mass murder of approximately 15,000 inmates. Now he sits in a Phnom Penh courtroom, watching his own fate unfold. Some might say that the actions of an evil but long-gone Cambodian regime 30 years ago have little bearing on the world of today. But the Khmer Rouge?...
...cautiously optimistic” about receiving more funding, and that she hoped that the BMC would be “paid more fairly” for the services it provides. On the state level, Massachusetts will benefit from funding for infrastructure improvements, including $300 million for mass transit; affordable housing projects; and education aid. In addition, the stimulus package will provide residents with tax cuts, low-income housing, medical care, and education funding. The plan also may create or save an estimated 79,000 jobs in the state, according to a report released earlier this week by the Obama administration...