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...TANIA YANNAS...
...appropriate European art in the same way Europeans did ours," he says. "That's what is so much fun for me: I'm stealing their stuff." He has occasionally steered away from overtly African-American subjects: Under the Double Moon (1989) is a science-fiction adventure about telepathic twins; Tania retells the story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. Both operas demonstrate Davis' sure confidence with harmonic and melodic techniques that combine elements of both black and European tradition. "I didn't want to be boxed in, and it was necessary for my development to feel free," says...
...they're not. Witness the experience of British engineer David Rowbottom and his Australian cousin Tania Miller, who were entranced by the promise of dramatic vistas in Turkey until they found themselves staring down the gun barrels of insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group lately kidnapping tourists as part of its war for independence. After packing Rowbottom and Miller around the backcountry for five weeks to avoid searches by the Turkish army, the guerrillas freed the couple last week. Rowbottom and Miller expressed relief at being released alive and unharmed. They did not indicate, however, whether they...
...organization also elected Sameer Bhargava '95 as treasurer; Shapour T. Alam '93-94 as publicity chair; Nikhilesh M. Korgaonkar '95 as academic/political chair; Tania Kapur '94 as social chair; and Sarada Gurubhagavatula '94 as liaison chair...
...remarkable, elegiac novel that surely is mostly memoir, he walks the poisoned ground. His narrator, Maciek, is the son of a prosperous Jewish doctor. Maciek's mother died in childbirth, but a large, protective family surrounds him: grandparents, servants, neighbors, a nursemaid named Zosia and a beautiful aunt, Tania. But solidity melts away as the war and the Jew hunting begin. Maciek's father is evacuated by Russian troops. Tania becomes the mistress of a German officer. She and Maciek resettle as Roman Catholics in a nearby town, then flee to Warsaw when their protector kills himself to avoid being...