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...third day, Suleiman's mother Aiseta Traoré carried his listless body to the road outside their village in southern Mali and hitchhiked to the nearest hospital, about 9 miles away. There, she says, a doctor gave her a pack of vitamins and advised her to take the boy home to recover. Hours after Traoré and Suleiman reached their village, though, the boy died...
...from high school. Though he grew up before AIDS, bad health was rife - his father, a policeman, died when he was 3. His mother was a domestic servant for a white family and Zuma dropped out of school to work on his uncle's farm and as a kitchen boy...
...fashioned, almost Victorian outlook remains. He may embrace polygamy - in a nation of millions of single mothers, Zuma calls it socially responsible - but the President disapproves of alcohol and television (both are "killing the nation," he told the teachers' conference in Durban), has boasted about how as a boy he used to "knock out" homosexuals and laments the disappearance of corporal punishment. Such back-to-basics views may be offensive to South Africa's élite and the ANC's more liberal members but they're also incredibly popular...
...through the ringer of supernatural scenarios, then WWN was probably coming scarily close to filling any gaps in the collective imagination. But whether it was the strangely sympathetic, glassy round eyes or the face that rivaled Macaulay Culkin’s “Scream” impression, Bat Boy, who made an appearance for the first time that month, caught the attention of shoppers and soon became the sweetheart of supermarket tabloid...
Five years later, the half-boy, half-bat sensation was causing a stir off-Broadway as the lead character in “Bat Boy: The Musical,” a production created in cooperation with WWN. Currently playing at the New College Theatre under the direction of Matthew I. Bohrer ’10 through Dec. 11, this adaptation of the creature’s life from his discovery onward indulges the audience in the spectacular task of answering the question “What is it?” Part moral inquiry, part love story, and primarily ridiculous...