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...French society," says Diome. An illegitimate child raised by her grandmother, Diome grew up as an outsider in her village. She left at 13 to continue her education, supporting herself by working as a housekeeper. In Dakar, she married a Frenchman and moved to France. His family didn't accept her because of the color of her skin. "At first it was hard, but then I understood that it was just another form of rejection," she says. "I already knew rejection from home." The couple divorced; Diome found work and kept writing. Now she says she's at ease with...
...Without the funding, our outreach program would disappear,” said Assistant Director of CMES Susan M. Kahn. CMES would accept fewer graduate students into its program. Arabic language programs would not disappear, but expenditures would be cut back...
...Harvard’s area studies centers refuse to accept this oversight, they will lose valuable resources; but accepting the authority of an independent, partisan review board would have even graver consequences. Harvard faculty in area studies might even leave rather than subject themselves to political manipulation or coercion...
Manipulating the truth is Joan Fontcuberta’s favorite game, but not everyone likes to play. “I have been threatened, insulted, but I must accept these types of reactions,” says Fontcuberta. Ultimately, Fontcuberta hopes that his art serves a useful and instructive purpose, reminding people of the subjectivity of truth and the limits of one’s own perception. “My work is like a vaccination,” he says, “I try to introduce a virus of innocent hoaxes to provoke innocent reactions?...
...unwilling to accept a season on the sidelines as his final one among the Crimson’s ranks, Cremarosa has begun a petition campaign in the hopes of gaining an additional year of eligibility...