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...more than 30 years after Isaac taught his introductory Ethiopian language class, the African Languages Program has over 90 students and offers at least ten African languages annually. The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research is thriving in its new space on Mt. Auburn street, with research projects divided between African-American studies and African studies...
...elsewhere. Khodadadi's shelter is one of dozens hidden amid the dunes strewn with cigarette boxes, old shoes, stale food and human waste. Others camp in the city, cooking on open fires and bedding down under bridges. In a report last November, the French aid organization Médecins du Monde said illnesses in Calais were widespread and sanitation extremely poor. Yet like Khodadadi, many see Calais as an essential stop in their quest to reach Britain, unquestionably their preferred destination, thanks to the country's ample supply of illegal jobs, relatively liberal immigration laws, large ethnic communities...
...There's always a surprise film that wins a prize," French critic Michel Ciment said last night, "and a film that surprises by not winning." The unexpected winner, of the Grand Prix du Jury (second place), was Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest, yet another parable of grieving and reconciliation. An old widower, institutionalized with dementia, is cared for by a woman who herself has lost her young son. (There were important deaths in every one of the winning films.) Determined to set the spirit of his dead wife free, the man sets out on a long quest through...
...Studies Kofi Agawu is returning to Princeton University after he was hired last year from the New Jersey school by former Af-Am Department Chair Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. His wife, Christiana Agawu, who is the director of African outreach at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, will leave with him. “We decided to leave because we believe that Harvard is great but Princeton fits us better professionally and in family life also,” she said. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou...
...Kevin R. Du ’07, men’s hockey: Completed a distinguished career on the ice that includes inclusion on All-New England and All-Ivy League teams...