In the photo, a 7-year-old boy rests against a gravestone. His expression is angry, weary and sad. The boy is Paul McNally. In Belfast, where he lives, violence between Catholics and British soldiers is a backdrop to growing up, to life. Paul's father is in prison.
Wendy Gwo's parents grounded her the summer before she left for college. They caught her sneaking back into their Sunnyvale, Calif., home after a forbidden date with the boyfriend she'd kept secret from them. Katherine Chen says even broaching the subject of dating is taboo with her parents.
Time was when a play was a "period piece" it meant hoop skirts, gas lamps and men in straw boater hats. Fred Carmichael's comedy Hey, Naked Lady!, this year's annual Onondaga Hillplayers dinner-theater production, takes us to an even quainter time during the second Nixon administration when telephones still had dials, freeze-dried instant coffee was a startling innovation and Greenwich Village hipsters said things like, "You freak me out, pops," or "Hey, it might be a gas, man." And a Greenwich Village apartment accommodating four cost $200 a month. Still, the premise is enough to get this conflict-of-generations comedy going with a different perspective, as the geezer gets to deliver some agile responses. When asked if he's a "Serpico" (1970s talk for informant), [Robert Wexler] comes ...
In a May 13 roundtable discussion at the Palestine Center in Washington DC, Palestinian legislator, author and educator Dr Hanan Ashrawi discussed the issues that have been at the heart of Palestinian-Israeli conflict for generations: refugees and the right of return, and the shape of return, and the shape of the final settlement. The discussion took place on the eve of the 56th anniversary of Al-Nakba, the day Palestinians commemorate their expulsion from Palestine and the loss of their country when the State of Israel was created in 1948.
A basketball miracle repeats itself frequently in the conflict- ridden lands of Belfast, Cyprus and Israel. By miracle, I mean generations of mistrust and fear dissipating in the time it takes to advance a ball past midcourt.
The more American fiction remains the same, the more it changes. (The reverse is of course equally true.) From the birth of our republic through years of world wars, independent and hardy souls as dissimilar as Cooper's Natty Bumppo, Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, Cather's Antonia Shimerda and Hemingway's Robert Jordan have presented iconic images of courage and survival. But global conflict brought clearer apprehensions of fragmentation and peril, and postwar generations wrote accordingly - in Kurt Vonnegut's wry deconstructions of equilibrium and heroism, Thomas Pynchon's flamboyant dramatizations of paranoia and dehumanization and Ralph Ellison's reimagining of second-class citizenship as literal invisibility.
For the Arabs, Israel's presence in their midst has been disastrous. It has led to six major wars, forced them to militarize when they could not affonl it, distorted their development, split their ranks and encouraged their fragmentation into ethnic and religious minorities, provoked the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and reared generations of young Arabs on conflict, hatred and hostility. It has forced them to host a state that dominated them and ensured continued Western hegemony in their region. A disproportionate amount of damage was borne by the fronthne states of Jonian, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt. But now Iraq and the rest of the Arab world are affected, as is Arab society in general.On each visit to the Anib world I am stnick by its immense resources and its varied geography, hist...
Temporary employees, also known as contingent staffers, contingent labor, or project professionals, can be the key to completing high-profile, high-impact workplace learning initiatives without adding to the full-time headcount. The labor shortage is here, and American businesses are increasingly turning to new work paradigms to get the jobs done. Employers' needs conflict directly with employees' desires, as younger generations of workers tend to be less loyal, are not seeking employment for life, prefer greater work-life balance and self-directed, project-based work, and are comfortable with working remotely. Further, during times of economic uncertainty, companies are reluctant to add to the headcount. Temporary, project-based staffing maybe a way to bring the disparate needs of empl...
Editor's note: El Nuevo Mexicano -- in collaboration with La Herencia magazine, created by Ana Pacheco of Santa Fe -- publishes on the last Monday of the month one of La Herencia's articles, which may also be found at www.herencia.com. Today, as in biblical times, the Middle East is a hotbed of conflict with consequences that will affect generations across the globe for years to come. The region's political and regional affairs have dominated worldwide media coverage for decades, even more so since 9/11 and the Iraqi War.
The budget process is clearly dysfunctional. Budget resolutions are passed late and have diminishing relevance. Appropriations burgeon beyond reason, partly because they are larded with earmarks. Entitlements grow, raise unrealistic expectations on the part of beneficiaries, and place impossible demands on future generations leading to inevitable intergenerational conflict. In the name of "tax reform" the tax code grows longer and Internal Revenue Service interpretations expand exponentially. Few members of Congress have any idea of the depth and breadth of special-interest provisions in the budget legislation on which they vote. Some who do are under investigation for influence-peddling; some are in the slammer.
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