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...shows. All seven works in his newly translated Selected Plays share extreme sensibilities, depicting a universe of overcrowded jail cells, slums and parched villages in which the blackest of deeds are committed. The most ambitious work, a historical drama chronicling the life of the 18th century Sufi poet Bulleh Shah (spelled "Bulha" in the play) grapples, in the words of one character, with the "dark side of the human self" - exile, fatwas, persecution, genocide. There's murder in The Third Knock, forced abortion in Acquittal, sex trafficking in Woman of Sorrow and extortion in Black Is My Robe. Even...
...story, "Still Singing After All These Years," stated that Coretta Scott King gave the Commencement speech in 1968. In fact, she gave the Class Day address while the Shah of Iran spoke at Commencement...
...Miranda, the other students elected were Kylie P. Stone ’09 of Adams House, Brieana P. B. Marticorena ’09 of Cabot House, Devin D. Smith ’09 of Currier House, Sheila C. Lee ’09 of Eliot House, Ricky B. Shah ’09 of Lowell House, Derek N. Jones ’09 of Mather House, Seema Amble of Quincy House, and Jeffrey Kwong ’09 of Winthrop House. —Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...
...With WFP as a guaranteed client, many poor farmers will be eligible for credit with which to buy seeds and fertilizer, and perhaps employ people to help harvest the crops. "Once a farmer's group wins a contract they can take it to a local bank," says Rajiv Shah, director of agricultural programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. "They can show that not only do they have the means to produce but a market to sell it." Gates told reporters on Wednesday that he aimed to "transform the way small holders are able to get to market...
...Belgian government for aid programs only in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "It sets a very important example," says von Braun. It could also change the WFP itself from a purely humanitarian organization into one which helps poor farmers - and so ultimately weans millions off food aid. Says Shah of the Gates Foundation: "This is a market-based initiative." Open markets may be out of favor right now. But this is one we should be cheering...