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...said. She recounted that whenever she would attempt a new shape, her teacher would come over and mold it into a traditional one.“I think that part of it was that there’s a strength in these shapes that can stand up to a fire, stand up to a smoldering bed of embers,” Hoy said. Hoy found a similar strength in her teachers, most of whom had been either abandoned by their husbands for other women or widowed due to HIV. According to Suzanne P. Blier, Professor of Fine Art and African...
...than those dumped on other Boston-area universities, and even though there has been, and will be, a lot more to Harvard-Yale than the now-missing last few hours of the tailgate, hysteria seems to be the order of the day. Anyone who claims that the new rules stand to ruin Harvard-Yale, or who refuses to show up at the tailgate in protest, is being epically silly. After all, it could be a whole lot worse...
...eager to learn about the world, too. Onishi recalls how he signed on as a guest lecturer at two top Tokyo universities and wondered whether anyone would show up to hear about remote corners of the earth. Both courses ended up being oversubscribed, with some eager students forced to stand through the lectures. Another telling barometer is the number of Japanese specialist personnel working for the United Nations, which has increased to nearly 700 today from less than 500 seven years ago. "Among the Japanese public," says co-editor Watanabe, "there's a sense that since we were helped...
...estimated 70,000 people have died since hostilities began, and both the government and the rebels stand accused of a catalogue of crimes. Many Tamils say they face discrimination from official policies, and recent security measures throughout the country have heightened the sense of a minority under siege in the majority Sinhalese state. Upwards of 300,000 people may be displaced by the latest combat, though no journalists can enter the conflict zone to confirm this. Whatever the outcome of this campaign, the work of accounting for both sides' misdeeds and of repatching Sri Lanka's tattered society must begin...
...agency's mission has evolved dramatically since its inception under the Treasury Dept. While today more than 3,200 Secret Service members stand ready to sacrifice their lives for the safety of the leader of the free world, the agency's job originally was to stamp out counterfeiting in an era when one out of every three bills in circulation was fake. Though the Secret Service was tasked with guarding President Grover Cleveland's family in the 1890s, presidential security became a formal objective only after the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901. It wasn't until 1951--after...