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...years old every day. To mark our birthday, we will print some pictures and text from back issues of the magazine every month from now through November. The first selection?touching on everything from refugees in Shanghai to the first sub-four-minute mile in Oxford?is in this issue. Later in the year, we will publish two special editions to further celebrate our anniversary. We hope you enjoy them both?and our monthly trips through our back numbers...
...Congo's troubles rarely make daily news headlines, and the country is often low on international donors' lists of places to help. After Sudan, Congo is the second largest nation in sub-Saharan Africa, a land so vast and ungovernable that it has long been perceived as the continent's ultimate hellhole, the setting for Joseph Conrad's 1899 book Heart of Darkness. It is in part because of that malign reputation--and because the nation's feckless rulers have consistently reinforced it--that the world has been willing to let Congo bleed. Since 2000, the U.N. has spent billions...
...Freshman Adviser training, and will continue to work with the office on all other initiatives and projects. The Committee on Advising and Counseling also advises the APO. (The membership and the report of the aforementioned committee can be found on the curriculum review website.) There were several SAB sub-committees this year, including Peer Advising; Board of Freshman Adviser Recruitment; First-Year Communications; First-Year Adviser Training; Pre-Concentration Advising; and Concentration Advising. Each group was charged with brainstorming possible answers to several important questions and reporting results of their meetings to the full board several times before...
...body of get-lost songs was small. If pop approached the topic, it was usually an invitation to mutual hermitting. ("Let's get lost," Frank Loesser wrote and Mary Martin sang, "lost in each other's arms.") It's true that songs of emotional defiance had been a sub-genre of blues. In folk music, John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky balladeer with the dramatic delivery and the pure falsetto, had written "Go Away from My Window," covered by Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez - and adapted by Dylan...
...Dixie Chicks talk about Long Way as the end of their commercial salad days, but they're shrewd enough to know that only suckers choose between art and commerce. "I'm not ready to fly coach," jokes Maguire, and indeed Taking the Long Way could easily sub as the title for their marketing plan. They'll tour starting in July and flog the record on a few select talk shows. "Natalie's new motto is, 'What would Bruce Springsteen do?'" says Robison, laughing. "Not that we're of that caliber, but 'Would Bruce Springsteen do The View?'" They...