News from Around the World

Saturday morning, my friend Kim called me and asked if I wanted a ticket to see Bill Clinton speak at the U, but I declined saying that given the choice between Clinton and reviewing some educational materials, I would prefer the latter (which I really planned on doing). Kim then asked me if I wanted to go for a drive to Stillwater (about .5 hour from Minneapolis), so I responded that given the choice between reviewing some educational materials and hanging out with her…well, you can imagine that I got ready in no time to leave the apartment. Kim picked me and Rosalie up, and on the way a fried of Kim’s invited us to a puppet show held by an organization called “In the Heart of the Beast (www.hobt.org)” which focuses on using puppets to illustrate stories related to social justice. This show focused on forced internment of Japanese during WWII, and incorporated live music, puppets, and shadow puppets pretty effectively and successfully. The seats were packed with adults and children alike, which was very impressive to me for a Saturday afternoon.