the eye could see. They were the blue and green government-issued tents given to the homeless, but I had never seen so many of them. I said as much to…
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cracked along client lines: if you serviced natural clients, but wore a straightened style yourself, you were a preachy poser whose hands were out of synch. So called from the…
her dark, thick hair and punctuated it with a single blond streak. Clyde, like any painter, knew the difference between women who men loved and women who men wished to…
…UNTITLED #296 Prospero’s Ariel as an alien dancehall queen. Her feather headdress might be her hair; the disco ball she holds is like a globe. IN THE GALLERY: Five, six,…
overseen by my ePRT (embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team). We really bought into the chicken idea and spent like drunken sailors on shore leave to prove it. In this case, the…
…Ocean they are called typhoons. I’ve been in Hong Kong when typhoon warnings went out, and they are taken very seriously there. Hurricane Katrina’s affect on New Orleans and the…
…the author of eleven books of poems, including Essays on Departure (Carcanet, 2006) and eight collections of poetry translations, most recently Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s Nettles (Graywolf, 2008). She received the first…
the Comprehensive Peace Agreement between North and South Sudan in 2011, PSI and the Ministry of Health intend to distribute long-lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets to all ten states in…
…could agree upon. His undergraduate work in Baroque and Renaissance religious painting had been strong enough to get him into the program, and the paper he’d recently presented on Pontormo’s…
his apartment and living off the land. Penn shoots these encounters starkly and often close up, like we’re there too, eavesdropping on a series of intimate conversations. But when McCandless…
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consultation. And the Defence Minister responds to the people in clear English sans the cobwebs of jargon that typically entangle our military pronouncements. Runaway defense budgets get passed each year…
(sent by Thailand, relabeled with the Generals’ names) to a few recipients photographed groveling, just the way they like them. General Than Shwe stonewalled UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon,…
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of a strange children’s story. Our arrival at the berm was an event. Women and children lined up before MSF’s convoy appeared, patiently waiting in the sun. Far more of…
“General Strike” poster, quickly went up across the U.S. and around the world. She loaded hi-res images to the Internet to encourage people to print and use them in different…
students would naturally benefit significant numbers of black and Latino students. Richard Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the progressive think-tank The Century Foundation, is one of the principal proponents of…
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…that is so intimate and yet so alone. These vanishing acts are a staple of children’s books, which often tell of adventures that are magical because they travel between levels…
at a historical moment when state agencies and programs designed to enable social mobility, provide economic security and enhance civic life have been targeted for significant cuts. The last three…
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flopped. Sensing that her money and luck were about to run out, Nazimova built twenty-five apartments on her estate and began renting. In 1927, The Garden opened to the public,…
be desirable, the value added by the nineteenth century’s fishing out from the mighty ocean the existence of seaside resorts like the one described by Charles Dickens in 1851 as…
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…Armenian population that had been in Syria since at least the eleventh century. In fact, religiously inspired Armenians—Armenia was one of the world’s first Christian countries—had been traveling and settling…