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...Female Factories," whose national tour opens Aug. 2 at the Parramatta Heritage Centre. Between 1804 and the early 1850s, some 10,000 British women served in one of the 12 female work houses - known as factories - in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Theirs is a tale of dislocation and suffering of which few Australians have more than the sketchiest knowledge, yet it's hardly stretching things to call these women the mothers of a nation, or to suggest that it was partly through their struggles that elements of the archetypal Australian character were forged. Testament...
...massive part of history, I would want to make it my life. I haven't seen any extra demonstration or extra effort going into solving human and civil rights issues in other countries." The inside story of the salute is gripping; behind the scenes of Salute is quite a tale...
...Lisbona, Eisenberg's personal assistant in Israel, ''is his work. He enjoys bringing these things together -- which is why he is still doing it. He doesn't need the money.'' Even if he does not watch movies himself, the Eisenberg story could easily inspire one. It would tell the tale of a penniless German Jew who lands in Japan during World War II, goes into business, builds a trading empire in Asia and becomes one of the world's richest men. In 1938, when Eisenberg was 17, his parents, two brothers and a sister left their home in Munich...
...flexed some muscle in the Caribbean, and Haiti's military regime seems close to crying uncle. Backed into a corner, the strongmen who have ruled Haiti since overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 appear to want a face-saving way out of the crisis they themselves sparked. The tale begins last Thursday evening. With visions of Somalia in mind, the staff of Haitian army commander Raoul Cedras drafted a ''letter of reconciliation'' to be presented to the U.S. What was offered, TIME has learned, contravened the key elements of the Governors Island accord signed in July -- the agreement that...
...Ironically, Harrington has earned this mental strength through a tale of redemption. His plodding, mulish gait and mechanical style led many to label him a "journeyman" even before his 30th birthday, and for many years he was a consistent nearly-man, just like Norman. Between his first professional victory, in 1998, and his second two years later, he recorded nine runner-up finishes. When he finally did break through in a major championship, with a victory in a playoff of the British Open last year at Carnoustie, it was only after recovering from a disastrous double bogey on the final...