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...Natural History Museum from May 28 to Sept. 18. Each over 6 ft. [1.8 m] tall, the photographs reveal a moving depth of personality in their subjects. Mollison's apes are laid-back, cheeky, happy and sly. But disconcertingly, many also appear profoundly depressed and fearful, and no wonder. They are orphans, rescued from poachers. One of the subjects, a young gorilla named Pumbu (pictured above right), saw her parents killed for bush meat. Another, a sad-eyed Indonesian orangutan called Bonny (shown left), lost her mother and was sold as a pet. Mollison hopes that "Face to Face" will...
Creative leads can also belittle news. Depending on the story, the casual and sometimes flip language necessary to make metaphors work can undermine the seriousness of issue. One might wonder how an optional lead might work for a suicide bombing in Iraq, for instance. Luckily, the AP has already generated a sample...
Almost 20 new groups have been approved since February, and, with over 300 different recognized extracurricular activities at the College, many have begun to wonder why the numbers keep growing...
...Question of Leadership,” Stephen W. Stromberg once again pokes at the “dubious educational value” of requiring an “international experience.” Perhaps there are valid non-educational values of such a requirement. I wonder whether the U.S.’s position in the world might be different today if Yale had imposed such a requirement on its class...
DIED. GEORGE SCOTT, 75, booming baritone and founding member of the gospel group Blind Boys of Alabama, who met at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1936 and recorded gospel versions of songs by Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder; a month after winning a fourth consecutive Grammy Award; in Durham...