Nancy Hatch Dupree, and the staff of the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University, create a new library at Humayan Shahid School, Dasht-e Barchi, about one hour from central Kabul. This is the first time the 8,000 students at this school have had a library.
Tiffany and Nathanial have been living on the streets of New York City for years. On this day they announce their engagement at the Marsha P. Johnson Center, a homeless shelter for kids in Harlem.
Four Columbia Business School students consulted with hotel owner and Dar es Salaam entrepreneurs, Joseph and Damasi Mfugale, on how to build their Peacock Hotel chain, from three-stars into a five-star hotel.
Segment from Jay Corcoran’s first documentary, featuring Tom McBride. This documentary details the life and death of Tom McBride, a New York actor and model dying of Progressive Multi-focal Leucoencephalopathy (PML), an AIDS-related brain disease. McBride’s “All-American” good looks made him a familiar face in television commercials, print ads and films through the ’70s and ’80s.
Another Besson strategy that anchors the film is that many of the smaller roles were filled with Burmese non-actors. Filmed in Thailand, the Thai border has a large Burmese refugee camp and over 200 residents from the camps were used. Suu Kyi’s housekeeper and menacing military guard that keeps her under house arrest are deeply effective. Besson said the despotic guard who keeps her confined under house arrest is actually a carpenter by day.
As the bleak stories on the future of America continually grab headlines, after spending a day with these kids, I am deeply heartened about this new generation of young talent.
Asia Society kicks off its inaugural Asian Arts + Ideas Forum: Chindia Dialogues with China Scholar, Jonathan Spence and Writer, Amitav Ghosh. The Forum was created by Asia Society’s Executive Director of Public Programs, Michael Roberts, to foster a cultural dialogue through arts and literature between China, India and the rest of the world. Since a third of the world’s population comes from these two countries, it is in everyone’s best interest to learn about the history, culture and emergent voices from this region.
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