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Prolific actor and activist Ed Asner is accustomed to speaking his mind.Asner recently played the role of William Jennings Bryan in Peter Goodchild’s “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,” which was hosted by the Institute of Politics on Monday night. Perhaps best known as Lou Grant on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Asner has earned seven Emmys, more than any other male actor. Produced by L.A. Theatre Works under the direction of Susan Albert Loewenberg, “Monkey Trial” is adapted from...
WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN By Peter Godwin 344 pages...
Jambanja is a word theShona people of Zimbabwe use to mean "to turn everything upside down, to cause violent confusion." Of late it has come to refer to the practice of running white Zimbabwean farmers, many of whom have been there for generations, off their land. Peter Godwin, a white Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful...
...available in Brazil. In 2000 the company set up an 18-month-long postgraduate course to train its engineers in aerodynamics and flight mechanics. So far, nearly 800 people have taken the course. "We create from inside, and we are now delivering engineers with a specialist aerospace background," says Peter Clignett, a Dutch lecturer in Embraer's program. "The better the engineers, the better the finished product...
...Real estate mogul and COUR member Peter L. Malkin ’55, however, cautioned that Faust should heed the strong support for Summers’ agenda as an indication of which way to direct her own presidential term...