Word: mosaic
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...states that mission of the Dark Room is to create a community "to help young writers while honoring our living ancestors." In connection with the Dark Room, Kevin has repeatedly travelled to New York where he read at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and mosaic-Books. "I can leave Harvard, but I can never leave the Dark Room," Kevin says. "If Harvard was its own island, things would have been harder...
Between this Scylla and Charybdis, mirror designers are charting a variety of bold, new courses. By designing the Keck Telescope mirror as a mosaic of small segments, each the size of a dining-room table, astronomer Jerry Nelson of the University of California, Berkeley was able to make his mirrors both rigid and thin. But to provide images of pinprick sharpness, each segment must be kept perfectly aligned with its neighbors, a task handled by an elaborate electronic network...
...Somalia is a mosaic of clans and subclans. The men who captured Mogadishu in January 1991 and put President Mohammed Siad Barre to flight belong to the Hawiye clan. The northern quarter of the capital is held by the , Abagal subclan of interim President Ali Mahdi Mohammed. The Habar Gedir subclan of General Mohammed Farrah Aidid dominates the southern three-fourths. At the beginning of last year, hatred of Siad Barre united the groups, but that unity is long gone. Another clan has declared an independent Somaliland in the north; yet another controls the land south and west of Mogadishu...
...while Christian, Muslim and Druse communities face restrictions on travel and emigration, none are fully barred from permanently leaving as are Jews. With the stamp Musawi ("Mosaic") on their passport, Jews are the only Syrians whose religious identity appears on internal travel documents...
...treating two men's love for each other as if it still could appear honest and profound. "For me," Glimcher says, "life is a series of romances and passions. It's a hard way but rewarding way to live. What I'm interested in is urgency. That's the mosaic of this story, which I deeply believe in." And believing makes it so. Presto! a fable with the style and guilelessness of Hollywood's Golden...