Here are four more ways to put a little culture in an East Africa trip:
Mto Wa Mbu Village
Visit the Tanzanian village, and you help support the local people and learn about Tanzania’s tribes and the country’s history (it’s a former German and British colony, independently socialist after 1961; democracy came in 1992).
The village works to [...]
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Dec
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Dec
VANCOUVER, Wash. %26#8212; Karen Kingsbury, the reigning queen of Christian fiction, lives on a hilltop just outside of here in a spacious modern Tudor house, with a sweeping driveway and a large, landscaped pool.
This is the house that Life Changing Fiction built. That’s her trademark, says the winner of the 2007 Christian Book Award, because [...]
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Dec
The recent bathroom sex scandal involving Republican Idaho Senator Larry Craig has become a political hornet’s nest. However, to those who are privy to the real-life goings-on among the political elite in Washington, D.C., this comes as no surprise.
Extracurricular sexual activity in Washington, D.C., is about as uncommon as thunderstorms in the summertime. The element [...]
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Dec
Libya: tippling, tires, Tripoli, tyrants, and a tree (Part One)
Posted by admin Published in Novel SummaryThe KLM flight out of Amsterdam had all the trappings of a B-Budget film.
Besides being crowded, the flight had a bedraggled appearance that was heightened by the worn glean of the tapestry and the decidedly 70s cut-and-color of the stewardesses uniforms. Passengers looking a mini-United Nations, chatted in stunted English. And then there were the [...]
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Dec
Warning: I’ve written some long columns before. This one is really long. But, if one is serious about politics in this country, then this is a must-read. I’m not just saying that because I wrote it. (If you are a “skimmer,” then read up through the Endorsements section, and then [...]
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Dec
Michael Chabon
Gentlemen of the Road
224pp. Sceptre. %26pound;12.
978 0 340 95345 9
At the end of Gentlemen of the Road, after all the derring-do is derring-done,
and the dust has settled on the corpse-strewn plains of the Caucasus,
Michael Chabon has a quiet afterword with his readers, in which he confides
that, despite the book%26rsquo;s official title, he cannot help [...]
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Dec
Before I interview Emma Roberts, the instruction has come from her PRs not to
ask her about her famous aunt, Julia. You can%26rsquo;t blame Warner Bros for
wanting us to focus on the 16-year-old Roberts Jr %26ndash; who is a fine actress in
her own right, as she proves with a sweetly formidable turn as the eponymous
teen detective [...]
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Dec
Here are some of the events in the city this weekend. For more entertainment listings, be sure to check out our Weekday Planner, Stage, Clubs and Galleries listings.Friday December 7
Music
Royal Conservatory of Music presents a World %26#38; Urban Music concert featuring the RCM [...]
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