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What the Congo could be has been obvious since British explorer Lieut. Verney Cameron captivated Belgium's King Leopold in 1876 with tales of riches. The soil is fertile. There are giant stretches of tropical wood, and an estimated $58 billion of mineral wealth is in the ground.
For Hollywood, history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities...
Like a verbose Raymond Carver, author Amit Chaudhuri concerns himself with details of the everyday like the afternoon light as it casts a shadow against a dusty bureau. Chaudhuri's novels are more intimate and optimistic than Carver's tales of people mired in middle age depression. They focus on...
With a section on readers' embarrassing moments and an interactive quiz, Parents is hard to distinguish from Seventeen or YM. Of course, these confessions feature parental blunders, not teen tribulations. Rather than tales of untimely menstruation, Parents spotlights more mature bloopers. In Parents' "I Can't Believe I Did That...
On April 10, HPSN and OCS will hold a seminar called "Tales from the Trenches," with public service workers from finance, social work, health and technology 23/02/1999 News 3 Fresh Prince to Teach at Harvard? HARVARD BRIEFS Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan Sasha A. Haines-Stiles