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...DIED. WOLFIE KODESH, 84, veteran South African Communist Party activist who played a leading role in the fight against apartheid; in Cape Town. Kodesh was known for providing refuge to those on the run from the apartheid regime, and once safeguarded Nelson Mandela for two months in his one-room flat in the east coast town of Berea. In 1964, Kodesh was detained without trial, then exiled to Britain where he continued to work for Mandela's African National Congress. Kodesh returned to South Africa in 1991 as the apartheid system began to crumble. Believing that the cloak-and-dagger...
...daughter Carrie Hamilton (who died of lung cancer in January) collaborated on Hollywood Arms, a play based on Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Hamilton worked nearly till the end; she was viewing actors' audition tapes until just weeks before her death. But Mom had to finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week to mixed reviews. To be sure, the string of incidents--young Carol (here called Helen) lives in a one-room Hollywood apartment with her cranky Christian Scientist grandmother (Linda Lavin) and her alcoholic, divorced mother--is overlong and shapeless. But the play's very artlessness...
Inside the bomb-scarred old palace, Karzai occupies a simple, one-room apartment. The building is also home to a number of unwelcome squatters, including several commanders loyal to the Defense Minister. Karzai wants them out. But he can't be too pushy. Despite their dubious allegiance, these men happen to head his security, and the slouching guards at the massive stone gates regard Karzai's visitors with open suspicion and disdain. Karzai wants them replaced, and the Americans are hastily training bodyguards for him. But for now, Western diplomats--and even his staff--are worried that Karzai is vulnerable...
When the skies turned dark at the end of last month, Supa Suparman knew it would pour. What she didn't know was how much or how fast. By the next morning, her clothes were floating down the alley and her one-room house had filled with water to a depth of 2 m. "All I have left is what I'm wearing," moans the 42-year-old mother of four, now living with 1,000 others in a cemetery, the highest point in one east Jakarta neighborhood. Within a week, 50 cm of rain, double the amount that normally...
...copy of any image for $25, with profits being donated to relief efforts. The layout of the gallery space reflects the grassroots nature of the project, a truly authentic and original response to a tragedy—photos hang from clotheslines around the room, while the back of the one-room gallery serves as “office” and production room, complete with printers and scanners...