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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each of the women who attended the conference was given a laptop computer, along with a network connection modem and extensive Internet training. These resources will enable the women to maintain a constant dialogue about both their progress and their struggles in their peacemaking efforts when they return to their home countries, Hunt said...
Rather than focusing on the atrocities that continue to take place in the world's conflict zones, the conference delegates spoke with an air of optimism about the potential for progress initiatives like the conference represent...
...that are nonetheless elusive: her talent is to unveil revelation. In the nonfiction in this volume, it is Gordimer's practice to reveal truths that are painfully obvious to most anybody. The subtitle of the volume is Notes from Our Century, and Gordimer makes a case study of historical progress out of her native South Africa, taking us from the world of apartheid through redemption to the post-apartheid era. But her words begin to sound false: not the falseness of lies, but of emotional untruth...
...evolution of a truly democratic South Africa, that does not somehow strike a new chord in the reader. Gordimer manages to cover the most emotionally intense period in her country's history in a way that is factually true, but emotionally false: she repeats the necessary mantras about transformation, progress and unity, without any real attempt to get under the skin of the new country...
...shows around campus. Crimson Arts been covering student theater for a number of years now (not without its share of controversy, of course), but rarely do we ever get an insider's view on a production. This past semester, we gave you weekly glimpses at the progress of Jesus Christ Superstar, hoping to find out what it takes to bring a production from the page to the stage...