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...International Crisis Group (ICG) has provided one of the clearest windows into the troubled state of Indonesia. The Brussels-based ICG's mission is to use research to help prevent violent conflict, and it has been in the right place at a turbulent time: American human-rights activist Sidney Jones, head of the organization's Southeast Asian office, and a handful of expatriate and Indonesian researchers have produced 39 uncompromising reports on subjects ranging from bloody conflicts in Aceh, Ambon and East Timor to the origins of Islamic terror in the region...
...Sidney Verba ’53, Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University Library, says he was concerned about the intellectual integrity of Harvard’s libraries—10 divisions of the Harvard College Library and 90 University-wide—following the passage of the Patriot...
...damage to the play is slight because it shifts the focus to where (if it weren't for Sidney Poitier, who originated the role) it might have always been: on the women. As his wife, musical star Audra McDonald keeps her head down and her emotions in check, letting them loose in small, startling bursts. Sanaa Lathan is winning and funny as Walter's headstrong sister. Former Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad, dumpy and nearly unrecognizable as Walter's mother, breaks through the cliches to create an unsentimental portrait of moral strength in the midst of squalor. But nearly every...
OPRAH WINFREY by Sidney Poitier...
...into a more congenial place than it was in 1954. That may also be partly due to the very special energy that is Oprah Winfrey--a courageous, funny, compassionate, well-informed, dazzlingly curious person, as down-to-earth and loving as any human being I've ever known. --BY SIDNEY POITIER, winner of the 1964 Academy Award for Best Actor in Lilies of the Field