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...planned international tour is evidence of the director's belief that much of the planet could do with a little truth and reconciliation. Lessac has chosen to stage his play in "conflict and healing zones around the world," he says, places "where people still might not be able to let go of thoughts of victimhood, entitlement, vengeance and denial." He's talking of places like Kosovo or Jerusalem - or Somalia, where civil war between hundreds of clans has raged for 16 years and where it takes many minutes for strangers to introduce themselves, so intricate are the ethnic lineages that...
...nine different docent offerings showcased OUR HUAM’s objective of undergraduates educating their peers through the development of a Student Guide program. Each student-led tour was researched and delivered by a different OUR HUAM volunteer and involved the extensive discussion of three or four thematically linked pieces. For “Night at the Busch-Reisinger,” OUR HUAM expanded the breadth of the eight-minute, one-work format of “Night at the Fogg” because of demand for more comprehensive tours of the collections...
...rides, plane trips, losses, and victories as she traveled around the world playing competitive tennis. After graduating from the Evert Tennis Academy in Boca Raton, Florida, where she trained with tennis superstars like Andy Roddick, she found herself with a dilemma: play on the Junior International Tennis Federation tour or attend school. “I was traveling so much that my parents and I felt like I couldn’t keep up with both,” she says. “I couldn’t go to school everyday. It was impossible.” Ko?...
...follows a similar visit last month by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Since then murmurs in the U.S. intelligence community reveal mounting concerns that al-Qaeda is reestablishing itself in Waziristan. Stephen Kappes, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, accompanied Cheney on this particular leg of his tour, which may indicate that much of the private conversation revolved around evidence of further al-Qaeda activity in the region...
...Another woman suggested helping soldiers understand and prepare for the transition they'll be making between being in a combat zone and being back with their families. "My husband came home in January for his two-week, mid-tour leave, and we took the four kids to Disneyland in Orlando," she said. "This man who came home was so military, he began executing a plan of attack on Disneyland...