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...next time - 1988 would be his best chance, I told him, because his opponent would be the first George Bush - he dropped out almost three years before the election. He was convinced that his work in the Senate on issues like sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa was being hobbled by the assumption that he was inevitably a presidential candidate. So this time, when he announced that he wasn't running, he added something that we had discussed in his living room in Hyannis Port, Mass., a concession that he would never run: "The presidency...
...Africa's wine once had a reputation to rival Europe's. In the 19th century, vin de Constance, a Cape Town dessert wine, was the A-list tipple of its day, served to Napoleon on his deathbed and celebrated in print by Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. But before the end of apartheid in 1994, white-only rule and a system of paying black workers in highly alcoholic runoff had left a pronounced sour taste in international markets. Postapartheid, South African wine has reformed - there are growing numbers of black customers and vintners - but its quality has come under fresh...
...response, Stellenbosch University launched an investigation and found that two South African reds did have a burnt-rubber taste - but it was not specific to varietal, year or even South Africa, appearing in wines from other countries too. And the answer to how South Africa can produce some of the world's best and most keenly priced wines but still catch flak internationally is obvious to anyone who has compared a thousand-bottle wine list in Cape Town to the tiny shelf of cheap table wine labeled South African in their local store. "We export the crud," says a manager...
...Responding to speculation that Semenya is a man, South African officials defended their champion on Tuesday, calling for the matter to be dropped. "It's very simple: she's a girl," said Leonard Chuene, president of Athletics South Africa...
...Sana'a are high, or about to get high - not on any sort of manufactured narcotics, but on khat, a shrub whose young leaves contain a compound with effects similar to those of amphetamines. Khat is popular in many countries of the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa, but in Yemen it's a full-blown national addiction. As much as 90% of men and 1 in 4 women in Yemen are estimated to chew the leaves, storing a wad in one cheek as the khat slowly breaks down into the saliva and enters the bloodstream. The newcomer...