Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
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ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Renee Rosnes
Written in the Rocks
(Smoke)
TIKTAALIK is an Inuit word given to the fossilised body of an amphibian prehistoric creature that first made the move from ocean to land, discovered among the rocks of the Canadian Arctic.
Raised along the same Pacific coastline, hundreds of miles south in British Columbia was the phenomenal pianist Renee Rosnes.
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