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...just come back from Cambodia with a bunch of dried toads," declares artist Jerry Swaffield, pretty much by way of introduction. Thirty minutes later, he's prowling a patch of Bangkok wasteland, cars howling past on the expressway above, a stylishly ruffled figure picking through rubbish, which?in the opinion of gawking slum dwellers nearby?has already been stripped clean of anything valuable. "Very rich pickings," muses Swaffield, before plunking himself down in a discarded armchair that is hemorrhaging orange and yellow foam. "Awesome," he pronounces...
...past month, in the academic equivalent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, students and faculty have faced off with administrators against the backdrop of an educational Armageddon. Looming over us was not the threat of a nuclear winter, but that of an academic wasteland, devoid of choice and opportunity. But last week, in an unexpected maneuver reminiscent of Khrushchev’s withdrawal from Cuba, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby backed down...
...Laden's family are hiding somewhere in eastern Iran. Moreover, Pakistani sources tell TIME that on the second day of his interrogation in a safe house in suburban Islamabad last week, Mohammed said he had met bin Laden in December somewhere in the desolate stretches of western Baluchistan, a wasteland inhabited mainly by armed smugglers. But the Pakistanis aren't sure how much credence to give the tale. "We've got some good leads from Mohammed," says a senior Pakistani intelligence officer, "but we can't pin Osama down to one place...
Question 1: Does the original Cambridge provide more fertile sexual soil than the barren Wasteland across the pond...
...churches and bookstores and makeshift spaces, before and after the anti-war rallies of February 17th—poets combined artistic expression with political protest. The stereotype of the scholar-poet writing in dusty oblivion quickly became replaced by the media-savvy poet-activist, writing in a new wasteland where websites (i.e. poetsagainstthewar.org) are the publishing houses of choice...