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...Dorothy Shore Zinberg, a lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government moderated the Technology, Work and Gender session...
...Year award June 4 at Britain's Hay-on-Wye literary festival. An announcement in the Times said Hughes was selected for changing "the way we think about art, history and culture." Hughes has written such provocative books as The Shock of the New and The Fatal Shore and has made more than 25 TV documentaries on the visual arts. Following a near fatal car crash in Australia last year, Hughes is back in full swing for TIME and is in the final stages of completing a six-part series on his native country that will run there as well...
...getting dressed for another day in their lives. The final story is called Dressing Down and reverses the procedure of donning clothes for the sake of identity. A man remembers his grandfather, a respectable YMCA director who spent every July at a nudist camp that he established on the shore of a nearby lake. His wife, the narrator's grandmother, strongly disapproves: "Naturism was not her nature. Nudity was the cross she bore." Shields portrays the quarrel between these two as gently comic but also deeply earnest, a disagreement unresolved in life or death. This story, like the rest...
...stop ethnic cleansing; in Sierra Leone the international community appears unable to muster the will and resources to stop a ragtag guerrilla band that has already killed and mutilated tens of thousands more people than Slobodan Milosevic's forces ever did. The U.S. moved Monday to shore up the beleaguered U.N. peacekeeping mission to the war-torn west African country by offering to fly some 700 troops from Bangladesh into Sierra Leone, and also to provide logistical support should nearby Nigeria choose to resume its policing role in the former British colony. But another 700 troops is unlikely to make...
...weather hampered a landing, and on the first night only half the Fujianese, including Chen, were unloaded. The Fujianese were forced to stand on a shallow reef, with water up to their thighs, waiting for small boats to come out from the shore to pick them up. Finally five boats manned by Taiwanese gangsters ferried them to land. The Fujianese trudged through fields for several hours before they reached a road where vans awaited them. The next night the Taiwanese boats went out again, but this time the Guatemalan police were waiting at the landing site. Chen thinks peasants...