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...DIED. WOLFIE KODESH, 84, veteran South African Communist Party activist who played a leading role in the fight against apartheid; in Cape Town. Kodesh was known for providing refuge to those on the run from the apartheid regime, and once safeguarded Nelson Mandela for two months in his one-room flat in the east coast town of Berea. In 1964, Kodesh was detained without trial, then exiled to Britain where he continued to work for Mandela's African National Congress. Kodesh returned to South Africa in 1991 as the apartheid system began to crumble. Believing that the cloak-and-dagger...
This semi-intellectual defense of a kid’s book is perhaps a way of excusing the sparkly purple cape in my closet at home, or the way the pages of my four brightly-colored Potter books are lovingly smudged and worn while my Shakespeare reading remains woefully untouched. But I’m not alone. The weekend after I bought the fourth book, I saw countless grown-up muggles (what witches call people) carrying it on the subway or on the New York City street, and knew that when we opened the pages, we were all going...
Halloween sucks because all these kids walk around banging on doors, demanding handouts, and acting like they’re entitled to free candy ’cause they’re wearing a cape and a Batman mask. All of a sudden it’s cool to wander the neighborhood begging for food, and if you don’t give them anything, you’re a jerk. Well, that’s crap. I say you kids are the jerks for making me get up every 15 seconds. Any other night, you could call the cops...
...attacking Iraq. Peace will come when a nation like the U.S. understands that we are all part of the same human species and what happens to those in Rwanda or Zimbabwe or Iraq or India is as important as what happens to people in New York City. Adam Hess Cape Town...
...Back Bay" on the off-shore wind farm proposed for the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Cod, Mass. [SCIENCE, Sept. 30], the typical shortsighted vision of corporate America is once more on display. The former CEO of Phelps Dodge Corp., a massive copper-mining company, is concerned because his view of the bay may be tarnished by the presence of an environmentally sound, renewable source of energy. And this comes from a man whose wealth was built in part on a nonrenewable resource, the extraction of which has ruined beautiful landscapes across the globe! It's clear to me why corporate...