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...surly treatment of guests from more than 180 countries so dominated foreign news dispatches that conference leaders despaired of communicating their serious business: relieving the plight of women worldwide who suffer worse things than searches and bad plumbing. Into this welter of conflicting concerns stepped one visitor who seemed to bring it all together--to issue a ringing call against abuse and discrimination in their universal forms as well as their particular manifestations at the conference...
Housing is the need that first assaults a visitor's eye. With only 1,500 units for the reservation's 26,000 people, tribal officials estimate that an average of 17 people are crammed into each dwelling. Many of the homes are not in much better shape than Little Boy's; 1,800 families have been officially designated as "in need of housing." Yet the only money in town available for building is $285,000 derived from federal Tribal Priority Allocation accounts, which probably will not even stretch to cover this year's 700 requests for weatherproofing. If the congressional...
...paintings, Egyptian sarcophagi, the fossilized bones of velociraptors. Because the Rock Hall (as Clevelanders call it) focuses on music that has always been identified with rebellious youth culture, its exhibits seem forever fresh, bursting with the antiestablishment adolescent energy of the past five decades. Among the first things a visitor walking into the museum sees are huge black-and-white photos of antirock protests through the years, from crowds burning Beatles records to police protesting rapper Ice-T's lyrics. Barrie is a passionate advocate of freedom of expression--he successfully fought an obscenity charge brought against a 1990 exhibit...
Buffett's focus can make him come across as machinelike in his detachment. When a visitor to his office noted that Buffett had no stock terminal or computer, the billionaire replied that none was necessary: "I am a computer," he said. Buffett's son Peter recalls giving his father a birthday card and feeling dismayed when "he just sort of opened it and closed it--he read it that fast. I guess I was waiting for some response...
Krohn,, as Daughter, is the younger of the two women, and her portrayal of this character makes this distinction clear. Unlike the brash, uninhibited character of Weitzner, Krohn is bashful, shy, and confused as the Visitor appears to come back into her life...