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...very direct and honest about what I hear and, at the same time, encouraging. It takes a lot of courage to get up and sing in a master class because you’re basically allowing yourself to be publicly criticized. I want people to feel comfortable, I want to be helpful without getting people too confused...
...data recorded nearly a century earlier by legendary ethnographer John P. Harrington. But when others went into the field to check out Hudson's claims, "much of it was pretty unconvincing," explains anthropologist John Johnson of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. "That's what caused people to get skeptical about archaeoastronomical connections." (Garry Wills on three perspectives on Christopher Columbus...
...that!" Cortez exclaimed, "Don't do it while I'm here. I'm supposed to be running this s___. I don't want to get in trouble...
...mission and he divvied up the duty assignments just like a legit patrol. He and Barker would take the girl, Green would kill the rest of the family, Spielman would pull guard and Howard would stay back and man the radio. He told everyone to grab their rifles and get ready to head...
...share a history and some cultural values, North and South Korea have been divided since the 1950-53 Korean War. Before the North's famine in the 1990s, only a privileged few with money and connections to border guards could make the crossing. ("If you pay enough, you can get anyone out," says Kang.) After decades under the strictest and most repressive totalitarian state in the world, the first defectors that arrived in the South were "always suspicious," she says, and most had left relatives behind who could be sentenced to prison or even death for having a defector...