Word: botswana
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...contract and debated NBC's knotty dilemma: Stick with Jay or switch to Dave? NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw couldn't escape the subject even during a vacation following his reporting sojourn to Somalia. After a day of "birding and fishing and dodging hippos" in a remote area of Botswana, Brokaw said, a guide noticed his Late Night cap and asked, "Do you think that Letterman is going...
...from Botswana to Burbank, everybody knows. After a flurry of last- minute negotiations, Letterman announced he will leave NBC when his contract expires in late June and resurface on CBS -- an hour earlier, at 11:30 p.m. Eastern time -- two months later. NBC, after a siege of executive indecision (and possibly a last-minute change of heart), decided to stick with Leno, the man it installed as host of the Tonight show after Johnny Carson's retirement last May. The result will be a face-to-face battle between Leno and Letterman in the latest, liveliest chapter of the late...
...down-on-her-luck American anthropologist in Botswana decides it is high time to find a spouse. Into her frame of reference comes Nelson Denoon, who is handsome, charismatic and doing worthy work for indigenous women in the Kalahari Desert. Her narrative of what happens next -- and next -- is both uproariously funny and deeply serious, a long courtship of highs and lows played against an exotic, meticulously described African landscape...
...down-on-her-luck American anthropologist in Botswana decides it is high time to find a spouse. Into her frame of reference comes Nelson Denoon, who is handsome, charismatic and doing worthy work for indigenous women in the Kalahari Desert. Her narrative of what happens next -- and next -- is both uproariously funny and deeply serious, a long courtship of highs and lows played against an exotic, meticulously described African landscape...
...away from the villages that are the centers of tribal life. According to John Waiko, director of Papua New Guinea's National Research Institute, this decision has fueled instability by making government seem remote and arbitrary. Among dozens of nations and regions with substantial native populations, only Greenland and Botswana stand out for their efforts to accommodate the culture and interests of these people...