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...during his lecture at Harvard, describing the current network of 260 centers open to the Brazilian public where, according to Gil, anyone has access to the use of equipment for artistic projects. The goal for 2006, Gil explains, is 1,000 of these culture points, concentrated in poverty-stricken areas, where manifestations of culture can be a positive force for the community, especially the younger generations. Not only would these cultural centers be individually effective, but according to Gil, they would also act as a way of linking communities...
After spending a month volunteering with the Department of Defense and Project Hope in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 42 employees from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)—a Harvard Medical School-affiliated teaching hospital—returned this past weekend from the tsunami-stricken region...
...Grief-stricken by the eventual death of her beloved father, who is played with by Voi Feseaitu in a performance of tender devotion, Viki runs away from her home and into the wilds of the jungle. In her forsaken state, Viki finds solace in her promise to her father. She finally realizes that she does, in fact, have the power to combine the integrity of her traditional values with the ambition of her Western education, and thus stay true to herself without abandoning her heritage...
...Week Two former U.S. Presidents, Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, arrived in Asia last week on a four-country tour to keep the world's attention focused on the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami. The pair?in Democrat blue and Republican red, respectively?visited a stricken village in southern Thailand on their first stop; an emotional Bush praised "the spirit of the Thai people" while Clinton stressed the need "not to forget these people and places when all the cameras are not there...
Playing with an injured and flu-stricken lineup, the Crimson (8-1, 5-0 Ivy) pieced together two straight victories over the weekend, beating Penn 8-1 on Saturday and squeaking by Princeton 5-4 on Sunday...