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...sitting here in April—the pre-season season—teetering on the brink of 60 degree weather in the Boston area, it’s difficult not to stray and think of even warmer climes. It’s a trying thing, I’m finding, to take spring for what it’s worth, and enjoy the undercard as much as the main event...
...wonder No reading list of South African books would be complete without Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country or Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom. But here are more recent works to read before your visit. The Other Side of Silence (Vintage) by prolific author André Brink follows the journey - physical and emotional - of a young German woman who travels to southwest Africa, where she confronts chauvinistic settlers, a harsh desert landscape and her own demons. Antjie Krog began her career as a poet but is best known for her semifictionalized memoir Country of My Skull (Vintage...
...over its necessity, and has even sparked unrest. Last Thursday some 3,000 people held a candlelight vigil to protest what they feel is unwarranted Chinese interference, and the following day police forcibly removed 100 demonstrators besieging the main government office building. The fear: that Beijing is on the brink of curtailing the extent to which the territory is master of its own destiny. Here is Time's guide to Hong Kong's constitutional face...
While it was Bernakevitch’s even-strength tally that rattled the normally-unflappable Howard, the Crimson’s potent power-play unit brought Maine to the brink of defeat, converting on three of four opportunities...
...ensured that all of America’s seniors have access to healthcare. But this week, the program’s trustees set an end date for health benefits—they announced that the Medicare trust will be broke by 2019. Medicare has come back from the brink before, and, clearly, Washington should do what it takes to protect it. But the prospect of an end to seniors’ health benefits should remind Americans of how weak the system of state-sponsored health insurance is in this country. When even the elderly aren’t guaranteed...