Visions of Africa
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1830860,00.html
The first Europeans went to exploit the continent and were soon
followed by artists excited by the 'primitive'. But, as a new
exhibition shows, the images they produced bear the stamp of
colonialism with a paint brush, writes Mike Phillips
Thursday July 27, 2006
The Guardian
For most people in Britain, "Africa" is represented by a series of
visual metaphors that might range from images of wildlife and nature
reserves to the spears and hair styles of the Masai. The current BBC
logo in which young Masai men leap in the air screams "Africa!" in much
the same way as a line-up of Bollywood dancers is a statement about the
identity of Indians. We interpret what we see in a way that is
conditioned and determined by a specific visual history, a fact that is
all too often forgotten or ignored when we look at real people in our
current presentations and explorations of "diversity".
Babies among dead on Gaza front line
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1199342.ece
By Anne Penketh in Gaza and Daniel Howden
Published: 27 July 2006
Only the bloodstains on their white shrouds spoke of the tragedy that
had unfolded. Two Palestinian girls, one just eight months old, were
dead. They were killed when an Israeli tank shell struck a house near
Jabalya in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Yesterday marked the end of Cpl Gilad Shalit's first month in captivity
and Israel stepped up operations inside the Strip in an operation
codenamed Sampson's Pillar.
Bombs bound for Israel came via British airports
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1199343.ece
By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent
Published: 27 July 2006
Ministers are embroiled in a row over whether British military
equipment and airports are being used to assist Israeli attacks on
Lebanon.
MPs called on Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, to ensure that
arms made in Britain were not being used in the violence in the Middle
East, amid warnings that Israeli F-16 warplanes flying sorties across
the border may contain British parts.
France's first black newsreader is the nation's new TV heart-throb
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1199349.ece
By John Lichfield in Paris
Published: 27 July 2006
France is just wild about Harry. Since Harry Roselmack took over
reading France's most-watched TV news bulletin a week ago, he has been
a runaway success. So much so that viewers are already beginning to
forget that he is black.
Roselmack's presence on the screen - the first non-white to present a
French mainstream TV news bulletin in prime time - was originally news
in itself.
Simmering Rage Within the GOP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601495.html
By David S. Broder
Thursday, July 27, 2006; Page A25
My weekend visitor was one of the founders of the postwar Republican
Party in the South, one of those stubborn men who challenged the
Democratic rule in his one-party state. He was conservative enough that
in the great struggle for the 1952 nomination, his sympathies were with
Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, not Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Stem Cell Advocates Regroup
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072601732_pf.html
By Judy Sarasohn
Thursday, July 27, 2006; A23
President Bush may have vetoed the legislation, but supporters and
lobbyists for increased federal support for stem cell research aren't
giving up.
"This is never going away," said Michael Manganiello , a longtime
advocate for stem cell research.
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