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...patterns - like log cabins, monkey wrenches and wagon wheels - also served as directions that helped slaves plan their escapes. Since she lacked historical data to back up Williams' claim, Tobin enlisted her friend Raymond Dobard, a quilter and art history professor affiliated with Howard University, to help research and write the book, which is now in its sixth printing and has sold over 200,000 copies. "It's frustrating to be attacked and not allowed to celebrate this amazing oral story of one family's experience," says Tobin. "Whether or not it's completely valid, I have no idea...
...Continent in a rattling blue camper van, sending dispatches to the Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad. These reports, collected here, create a journey through the last century, with Mak breaking up what is essentially traditional, narrative history with short, contemporary portraits of historical settings. So Mak settles down to write about World War I from a farm in Ypres. He tells us about Hitler's disastrous Russian invasion from a square in Volgograd. He recounts the splintering of Yugoslavia from a restaurant in Novi Sad. Think of it as history with a journalist's sensibility - and datelines...
...basic methods of a Core class seem to have learned nothing from the innovative progress of education during the past century. Students attend lecture, read at night, write papers, and take final exams—each practice remains as solitary as it is antiquated. Students attend section for an hour a week and always have the opportunity to talk about classes in the dining hall or the dorm room, but the social dimension of learning is almost entirely extrinsic to the practice and principles of a Core education...
...after doctors refused to grant her permission to terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her eyesight. Tysiac, who suffers from severe myopia, became pregnant for the third time in 2000. Three doctors told her she could go blind if she gave birth but, contravening Polish law, refused to write her a certificate that would authorize an abortion. After giving birth, Tysiac's eyesight has worsened to the extent that she cannot see objects more than five feet away. She now receives a monthly disability pension equivalent to 140 euros...
...writer. It was at university, after seeing David Rabe's 1984 play Hurlyburly, when he decided to become a playwright. "The idea of this man screaming at a television, on cocaine, just having a dialogue with the newsreader-I remember watching that scene and just wanting to write something like that, wanting to write this psychotic angry male spree," says Cowell, who premiered his first play, Men, at Sydney's shoebox-sized Old Fitzroy Theatre in 2000. "I have so much that I need to get out." Six plays on, and three major awards later (2001's Patrick White Award...