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...clues and you find, even more mystifyingly, black-and-white pictures of stuffed birds - some extinct - from Fiona Pardington's photo series "Fugitive Beings." But in the simple acknowledgment, "this recording is dedicated to my mother Sophia in memory of my father Te Okoro 'Joe' Runga," Runga's musical mission becomes clearer. Birds is about flying into the past - and finding your feet...
...development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, can barely contain his frustration over the recent fighting. "It's madness," he exclaims...
...possibility that neither side in the conflict is able to rise above its worst instincts, and that two decades of ferocious conflict may have brutalized the island beyond repair. Says a European diplomat in Colombo: "Killing is how Sri Lanka does politics." Father Gnanapragasam Peter, who runs a mission for the Catholic aid charity Caritas, concurs. "Neither side," he says flatly, "cares for the people...
Picture this:A bunch of renegade Penn fans storm the quiet town of Princeton, N.J. on a mission. They round up all the members of the 2005-2006 Tigers basketball team and lock them in a little room somewhere in the cavernous expanses of Jadwin Gym. Then, the Quaker faithful hire all of the members of the 2002-2003 Columbia team—the one that went 2-25 overall and 0-14 in the Ivies—to pose as Princeton players for the duration of the season.At the first practice in the fall, Princeton coach Joe Scott doesn?...
...cares so little for Harvard’s name and Harvard’s mission to do good in the world,” Matory said of Summers...