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...citizens even against the lethal health crises they battle every day, the truth is that the threat of another disease - even a pandemic flu - tends to elicit shrugs in this sickness-struck continent. If asked what preparations they are making for the possibility of swine flu's arrival, most African governments opt for the same kind of wordy non-statement issued by African Union chairman Jean Ping on Thursday: "We hope to establish a continental plan for prevention, and if necessary a mechanism to fight this outbreak that has not yet affected Africa...
...generally tend - and it doesn't just apply to African politics - but I usually keep out of political comment. As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance. It's a bit of an abuse of a position to do that. I draw a distinction between the private side of one's live and the public...
...Written by novelist David Benioff and Skip Woods, Wolverine was directed by Gavin Hood, a South African who earlier made two exercises in political solemnity, Tsotsi and Rendition. The new movie has a sharper look and a smarter film sense, because Hood is surrounded by the sort of artist-technicians who can lend cinematic swank to almost any action picture. But that's now par for the course, and Wolverine doesn't rise above the level of familiar competence...
...vandalized. Kidd said that in the future she hopes the Student Life and Activities Office will work to increase the amount of faculty involvement in co-curricular activities and continue to foster collaboration between student life and house life. After retiring, Kidd said she plans to go on an African safari, a trip funded by the money she received from winning the Faculty of Arts and Sciences administrators’ prize last year. The award gives recipients a $7,100 stipend and a month of paid leave in which to use it. Kidd will also serve as a chair...
...Alabama of 2009 is a far different place from 1963, and from 1994, when an African-American state Supreme Court Justice, Ralph Cook, was advised not to show his image in his election campaign advertisements so as not to draw attention to the fact that he was black. "Forget race," Davis says. "There are parts of the state where people haven't seen a Democrat in a while...