Word: continental
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Of course, we Americans knew that, felt it in our marrow as we marched raucously across a continent. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner explained it to us in 1893, when he wrote of the closing of our Western frontier. "What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of...
It was quite a reception for a little-known African rebel leader who has been unable to achieve power in ten years of fighting. Nonetheless, Jonas Savimbi, head of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), has become a test case for hard-line conservatives on the...
Financial support for the rebels comes from some 500,000 Eritreans living overseas. The U.S. and other Western governments have not backed the E.P.L.F., in part because some of the group's leaders are Marxists. In addition, like many African countries, they are reluctant to support what some see as...
But last night, as the Harvard men's basketball team took on its cross-continent rivals in front of a season-high 2000 fans at Briggs Athletic Center, all that separated the Cardinal and the Crimson was 16 points.
Williams said that food aid to Africa has been life-saving but may now be undercutting that continent's own agricultural incentive.