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...wandered into the Carpenter Center during the fall semester student photography show, you have experienced the work of Jeff Sheng '02. Hailing from Thousand Oaks, a suburb of Los Angeles, Sheng's work was the show's centerpiece, consisting of eighteen 16" x 20" color prints spanning the inception and dissolution of a gay relationship in which he was involved. The photographs-ranging from self-portraits, portraits of his former boyfriend and intimate moments between the two-document the vicissitudes of sex and love. Sheng afforded his audience the opportunity to enter a world rarely seen, a sphere of emotional...
...combines the exclusivity of suburbia with the funky oddness of the 70s and layers a coming-of-age story with issues of race relations and religion, depicting the trials and travails of an Asian-American female who must cope with the pressure of growing up in an all-white suburb. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Saturday...
...vowed to stop the boy from leaving Lazaro's house might react. Then there's the drama of Elian's own reunion with a father he's known only via the telephone since last November's trauma. And even the question of whether a sojourn in a tony Maryland suburb leads Juan Miguel to contemplate a change of address. The drama that began last fall appears to have reached its season-finale cliffhanger, and the outcome is anything but predictable...
...racist "separate but equal" policies of the pre-civil-rights-era South are still reverberating in North Carolina - and has affected what many see as a legitimate educational experiment. Last week, Parkwood Middle School, in a suburb of Charlotte, bowed to pressure from the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and ended a half-year tryout in which 55 of 335 of Parkwood's eighth graders were separated by gender into two different classes. The ACLU claimed the exercise, which school officials hoped would highlight any intellectual benefits of segregating adolescents by gender, was discriminatory toward the girls...
...never say "never" in Israeli politics, which may explain Ehud Barak's apparent flip-flopping on handing over villages near Jerusalem to the Palestinians. The Israeli prime minister on Tuesday backed away from a plan to hand over the ethnically Palestinian Jerusalem suburb of Anata next week, under pressure from his right-wing opposition and even some key elements of his own coalition. But while the retreat had Palestinians and media commentators questioning whether Barak is able to deliver Israeli acceptance of final peace treaties with the Palestinians and with Syria, the maneuver may have been part of a plan...