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DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage--often using African gospel and jazz--Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet, and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about AIDS by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...
...DIED. GIBSON KENTE, 72, revolutionary South African playwright considered the founding father of black-township theater; in Soweto. The first to bring the realities of township crime, poverty and politics to the stage - often using African gospel and jazz - Kente produced more than 20 plays, including Manana, the Jazz Prophet and the antiapartheid piece How Long. Last year he defied his country's taboos about aids by acknowledging publicly that he was HIV positive...
...electorate is polarized on the Iraq war, there is plenty of terrain on which to come together around issues that voters can do something about. "Locally, Democrats and Republicans have a lot in common," says Hank Mahoney, the Republican president of the local board of commissioners in Radnor Township, Pa. "We all want to keep taxes low, protect open space, pay the police and have the trash picked...
...become dogma. Small-town leaders are under intense pressure to deliver the visible trappings of development. But as is true from New Jersey to Nigeria, when rivers of fresh concrete flow, corruption is never far away?especially when local officials are chronically underpaid (the salary of a typical township magistrate in China is about $250 a month before bonuses and adjustments). For a local official to crack down on corruption can mean that cherished development projects get delayed. Indeed, in Lianjiang, Huang's expos? has stalled the county's first apartment complex financed by outside investors. "If this becomes...
...CURTIS HAMILTON Scio Township, Mich...