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This is nonsense. Africa is not a country. The distance between Paris and Kosovo is about half that between Cape Town and Cabinda, yet no one thought the war in the Balkans made the 1998 World Cup in France unsafe. South Africa has security problems, yes, but rebel groups are not one of them. As an exasperated Danny Jordaan, South Africa's chief tournament organizer, said, "We urge the world not to play double standards. When a terrorist incident happens in any European country, no other European country is linked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer Attack: Why South Africa Is Not Angola | 1/10/2010 | See Source »

...were pipe stems, ceramics with hand-painted designs, and glass bottles. The students who originally owned these objects didn't know it back then, but these will now be used by archaeologists to learn about life at this 17th century college. (Makes us think twice about throwing that empty Cape Cod chips bag on the ground.) These recovered artifacts have been donated to the Peabody Museum, where Fash serves as the director...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Than Just a Hole in the Ground | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...retreating—what I’ve done for each of the last four or five years is retreat to a place I have back in Cape Cod. I always have some sort of writing project, like a book I’m doing this year...We go for walks on the beach, bundle up and go for bike rides. If it’s not too cold, we go kayaking...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hey Professor: Holiday Edition | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...television series “True Blood” and the premiere of the more PG-rated “Vampire Diaries” on the CW channel. Of course, these modern vampire hunks bear little resemblance to Count Dracula—there’s none of that cape-wearing, sleeping-in-a-coffin nonsense...

Author: By Adrienne Y. Lee | Title: Raising the Stakes | 12/4/2009 | See Source »

...like the need for discipline in schools, alcohol and even sex and violence on television. Zuma: I don't think it's conservatism. What we're saying is: let's have a conversation. Take alcohol. Liquor is used to dehumanize us. If you go to the Western or Northern Cape where, in some places, they have the tot system [paying workers in high-alcohol run-off from wine processing] up to this day, you go to areas that by 11 o'clock on a Saturday, people are already drunk and dizzy in the road. It's not doing any good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacob Zuma: 'We Have to do Things Differently' | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

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