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Parfitt's final hunt for the ngoma, which dropped from sight in the 1940s, landed him in sometimes-hostile territory ("Bullets shattered the rear screen," of his car, he writes). Ark leads had guided him to Egypt, Ethiopia and even New Guinea, until one day last fall his clues led him to a storeroom of the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe. There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings on its corners; and a raised...
...Thursday was a different matter. In the wake of a scandalous New York Times story suggesting a romantic fling with a lobbyist, McCain arrived at a Ford Focus car assembly plant with a decidedly tense grin plastered across his face. His campaign staff promptly separated anyone with a pen or a tape recorder from the candidate. "The McCain campaign decided who they wanted on the tour, and it's only photographers," a nice lady from Ford announced after a reporter spotted the candidate behind a car chassis and tried to approach...
...very first such visits. Through the thick glass he could see the different living arrangements of the IDPs, some living in middle-class housing, others living in ramshackle buildings made of cement, wood or U.N. tents. But, says Crowley, "I wasn't able to get out of the armored car...
...Ouandja, up in the turbulent and remote northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR), not far from the border with Sudan's Darfur, is connected to the capital, Bangui, by rutted roads that become impassable in the rainy season. The town and its residents have long been abandoned by the state. Still, Patrice has not lost hope that, one day, someone in Bangui might recognise his efforts as an educator...
CHRISTINE M. EVANS (CME): That’s a really tricky question. My favorite play is always the one I am working on in the moment, and at the moment that’s “Trojan Barbie: A Car-Crash Encounter with Euripides’ Trojan Women.” It is having a reading in Providence in about a week or so. But I love all my plays when I am doing them. I would feel like a bad mother if I had to choose just...