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...writers are clamoring to be heard. Move over, India (pop. 1 billion). South Africa (pop. 45 million) may well be the developing world's new literary superpower. Not bad for a country with 11 official languages and an education system still reeling from the inequities of the past - plus stubborn poverty, environmental degradation, corruption and an aids epidemic that has left 1 out of 5 adults hiv positive. But the literacy rate is a respectable 86%, and 5,000 new titles are published each year. Besides, as in India and other poor countries that export fiction, great troubles can make...
...Laurel Avenue (HBO) A working-class black family in Minnesota battles against drugs, crime and assorted family crises. This two-part drama, directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move), was startling in its frankness yet leavened by a stubborn optimism, a far cry from TV's usual easy sentimentality...
...even on a first-name basis; it is ''Mr. Mandela'' and ''Mr. President.'') The task they have been forced by circumstances to undertake in concert has tested their characters in fiendishly exasperating ways. Both De Klerk and Mandela are attorneys, skilled in the art of compromise. Both also have stubborn streaks and strong, entrenched opinions, shaped in large measure by their very different South African pasts. For De Klerk, a fourth-generation Afrikaner and hence a beneficiary of white privilege under the old system, change has meant revoking the legacy of his forebears. He vehemently denies, however, that...
...Cambridge-area residents jumped at the chance to see an aging rock star grace the stage in the Gordon Track and Field Center. Legendary musician Bob Dylan, in all of his antiquated glory, drew an admirable crowd of students last fall at a campus that is often openly stubborn to embrace community events. This fall, we believe that the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Undergraduate Council (UC) will top last year’s success, as they announced Monday that the reemerging Wyclef Jean is to headline this November’s fall concert.Campus-wide concerts have been conspicuously...
...studied and educationally immersed himself in theatre at institutions like the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the Yale School of Drama, constantly cultivating his interest in directing. There was little he could do to stop himself, he says, and advises students with directorial ambitions to keep a stubborn, one-track mind. “There’s just one thing to do: Don’t stop. Just never stop directing.” But Hughes quickly amends his statement, allowing for one other interest. “All right,” he says...