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...He is very agreeable," wrote a baroness in Belgium, introducing Graham Greene to a doctor running a leper colony in the Congo, but "very problematic." Indeed so. The love of ambiguity and restless sense of privacy that made Greene one of the defining writers of the past century rendered him a mystery in life, even to himself. Fifteen or so years before his death, perhaps as one of his celebrated pranks, the aging novelist appointed an intrepid Joseph Conrad scholar, Norman Sherry, to be his official biographer. In the 28 years since his appointment, Sherry followed Greene to more than...
...trying to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and a Congo bar, but Mom’s calling to ask if I remembered to call Grandma this week. She hears me chew, asks what I’m eating and admonishes me for an unbalanced diet...
This allows Ronzone to tack on what he calls "a random country," a Kazakhstan or a Congo, to the end of each journey. When he arrives--friendless and unannounced--his strategy for expanding his network frequently consists of walking up to people, saying hello and starting to talk about basketball in his train-wreck sentences. More often than not, they talk back. In Kazakhstan, a conversation with a hotel bellman led to the discovery of three raw but promising players at a club team. "Tony talks a lot, and that gets him into these places," says the Pistons' Hammond...
Over the past two decades, though, persistent drought has forced the Arabs to move to more arable lands, straining relations with the Africans. In the late 1980s, competition for turf began to turn violent. Light arms poured into the region from neighboring Chad and the Democratic Republic of Congo, leading to occasional massacres. Hostilities simmered for more than a decade. But the spark for war came in April last year, when, following two months of occasional raids on villages, African rebels from a group calling itself the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) swept into the tumbledown airport in the town...
...Mann's nickname for Thatcher - for an unspecified "project." Last Friday, Mann was found guilty of attempting to buy arms for the coup plot. He had pleaded guilty only to trying to procure weapons, which he says were to be used to secure mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thatcher will get his day in court in November. Equatorial Guinea says it will ask South Africa to extradite the Briton to face trial, though South Africa is unlikely to accede, since he could face the death penalty. When police arrived at Thatcher's house they found suitcases packed; they...