Kyrgyz author Chingiz Aitmatov, who introduced his mountainous Central Asian nation to the world through novels about ordinary lives under the totalitarian Soviet regime, died in Germany on Tuesday, relatives, colleagues and Kyrgyz officials said.

Nan McEntire, an associate professor of English at ISU, and her students were relieved when they didn't have to eat haggis, a traditional Scottish food made by mixing minced sheep hearts, spices and vegetables and cooking the mixture in the sheep's stom

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni climbed up the red-tiled stairs of the International House at UC Berkeley on a recent April afternoon with the familiar gait of someone who has done it a thousand times before.

For a long time, African studies have sought to identify the causes of the underdevelopment of the continent and the Third World countries in general such that the whole intellectual quest has become a cliché.

Cathie Ryan gets into a song by closing her eyes. That way, the famous Irish-American singer said Friday, her lyrics are about the subject of the song and not about her.