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...would prefer that they did not. For their part, Greek Cypriot business leaders and resort owners fear competition from the Turkish side of the island if the north gains official recognition. Ordinary Cypriots blame their entrenched political élites for a failure of imagination. Neshe Yashin, a Turkish-Cypriot poet and peace activist who lives on the Greek side of the island, says that the political class "are all nationalists. And not only that, they are fighters. They killed each other. This is the class that benefits from the conflict." Says a U.N. official: "There's no public debate about...
...Burroughs’ bestseller. Newcomer Joseph Cross takes his first leading role as Augusten, a boy growing up in the 1970s with two feuding parents. A young Augusten develops a close relationship with his mother Deirdre (Annette Bening, “American Beauty”). She is a struggling poet who only wants respect from her peers, and her alcoholic husband Norman—played with the perfect mixture of exhaustion and sarcasm by Alec Baldwin. When Norman walks out on the family, Deirdre begins seeing Dr. Finch (Brian Cox, “The Bourne Identity”), an unorthodox...
...news to anyone. But the positions aren’t always what you’d expect. When Raja G. Haddad ’05 left Harvard, he was an important member of the university’s artistic community. He was president of the Signet Society, a published poet, and co-founder of the Cinematic, Harvard’s student-run film journal. But when he returned to Harvard Square’s Brattle Theater two weeks ago, it wasn’t as a visiting director or journalist. He came as an employee of Katzenbach Partners...
...first published in 1980. Last night’s event, titled “The Inner Life of Democracy,” was part of the Cambridge Forum series, a weekly public affairs program taped at the church and broadcast on public radio stations across the country. Poet Mark Nepo introduced Zinn and interviewed him on-stage before opening up to the audience for questions. Zinn was interrupted on multiple occasions by applause while he criticized the U.S. government’s conduct of the war in Iraq. “I believe most people don’t want...
Another firm boasted in its advertisements in this newspaper about how it “put a poet in charge of designing an automated trading block.” I can see Emily Dickinson scrawling slant rhyme over a life of corporate drudgery now—I had never entertained the thought / of running Lehman’s automated trading block...