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...these programs, despite their differences, do have a common strand. They are, in Klitgaard's words, "capacity developing": instead of merely providing solutions, they are establishing a new class of managers--whether in the public or private sector--who will be the nuts and bolts of maintaining that country's development...
...hasty attempt to resolve the issue, the police suggested last week that "scientific" tests on one strand of Lize's hair proved that she was of mixed race. But South Africa's leading expert on hair immediately denounced the tentative finding as "meaningless," arguing that hair samples of infants do not reveal racial characteristics. The government then repudiated the police, calling the test "inconclusive...
...dismissals in unprecedented profusion; if they could talk, there would be an argument. The best hotel in Paris? The finest painting in the Prado? The tastiest little trattoria in Trastevere? Guidebooks, those quirky, opinionated and impassioned travelers' aids tout the virtues of everything from a stroll down the Strand to a tour of the catacombs. A sampling of the more comprehensive...
Case's novel is a beautifully written, expertly crafted portrayal of a simple American family. Yet very little is conventional in this work. There is no single strand of time to guide the reader through the varied experiences and feelings Chase presents, moving back and forth freely through three generations of American women. The unity of the novel is created soley through the narrators, the voice of a collective female consciousness...
...side it descends from the Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, whose images of cannibal nature-all claw, tooth and bone-were a significant, though now unfashionable, part of the impact surrealism made on New York in the 1940s. On the other it comes out of a native, down-home strand of buckeye humor, folk forms that verge unconsciously on surrealism: tall Texan stories and Bible Belt grotesqueries. A zoo of critters lurks in Alexander's paintings: snakes preying on rats, rats eyeing scrofulous cats, and so on up the food chain to leopards and a large stag, whose rack...