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...into another, cracking her gum as Undine’s not-too-bright valley-girl assistant, then smiling sickeningly over her clipboard and talking in a nasal voice as the counselor of a drug rehabilitation group. Her performance as the belligerent hooker who shares Undine’s jail cell was unforgettably comic...
...only feature in my cell aside from walls and bars was an iron shackling ring in the floor. Prisoners at Gwanda are paraded every morning before the station's officers and, one by one, interrogated and slapped, humiliated. Some of my fellow prisoners had been arrested for trapping porcupines in the forest, selling gasoline, stealing--petty offenses committed in desperate efforts to feed their families. A piece of graffiti on the wall read, P. MOYO WAS HERE FOR STANDING...
...desperation. They also illuminate why any recovery in Zimbabwe will be a long time coming. "It's a brain drain," says Archbishop Pius Ncube, a prominent government critic based in Bulawayo. "All the intelligent people--the doctors, the lawyers, the teachers--have left." Through the bars of my cell, wardens would quietly ask if I could help them find jobs in London...
...last night in jail was a Sunday. I was falling asleep on the floor when I felt a low harmony echoing up through the concrete of the cell next door. There was bass, tenor and rhythm. For two hours, prisoners filled the jail with music. These were songs of suffering and acceptance, of beauty and soul undiminished...
...creating Harvard’s first University-wide department, the Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology. The University-wide department promises to bring together faculty from Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), encouraging collaboration and streamlining Harvard’s resources for stem cell research. The new department will collaborate with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), which currently facilitates University-wide investigation in the field, but it will be better able to centralize resources for stem cell research than the Institute could alone, in particular gaining the power to hire its own faculty...