http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/838/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/people-who-live-grass-houses <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> An author remembers her experiment in Third World living in Bali, where she felt &quot;colonial&quot; seeking a cheap nanny to watch her &quot;sponge.&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/tim-graham">Tim Graham</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>In Thursday's Home section of the Times, they published an article by the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/garden/charlotte-bacon-lessons-from-a-year-in-bali.html">fiction writer Charlotte Bacon</a>, who fondly remembered her experiment in Third World living in Bali. It was titled "Lessons of a Grass House." She went to Indonesia for idealistic reasons - "to develop a school that was based around a curriculum of sustainability" - but was forthright about her liberal guilt:</p> <p> </p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/people-who-live-grass-houses" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch BradChoyt CharlotteBacon liberalmediabias NewYorkTimes NewYorkTimesbias TimesWatch Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:40:00 +0000 admin 405 at http://archive2.mrc.org