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...Jungle Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Raised by apes, the original great white hope lives in an Africa filled with savages, man-eating lions and damsels in distress...
...Paradise Out of Africa (1985) You're in a loveless marriage, you're broke and you have syphilis. But, as Meryl Streep discovers, Kenya's rolling plains can make it all better...
...income families struggling to maintain a minimal diet. Egypt, which subsidizes bread prices for its poorest citizens, had to shell out an extra $850 million on wheat last year, and the UN blames rising food prices for difficulty in meeting many of its Millennium Development goals in Sub-Saharan Africa...
...policy and global trends walk right into our dining hall, Harvard students stay, for the most part, focused on their dinner plates. This is to some extent understandable—there isn’t much any of us can do with our dinner plans to alleviate starving in Africa. HUDS might, of course, cut corners, reduce waste, and try making us pay for the food we eat but, in the end, students might have to accept that, between paying Harvard workers a “living wage,” the benefits of unlimited dining, and being, alas, attached...
...Dictators, of course, have greater staying power. Ivy Jerrier from Durban in South Africa spots Zimbabwe's despotic leader Robert Mugabe sitting next to Fidel Castro. "I don't want a picture with him," she exclaims, then changes her mind and strikes a pose with her hands around his throat. Tussaud's dispensed with rope barriers five years...