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But the canal treaties did succeed, thanks to the perseverance of Toreros and other Panamanians The General's patience was a rare commodity, but then Torrijos was a rare individual. As Graham Greene notes in his portrait, Getting To Know The General, Torrijos was a lone wolf on a continent...
For more than two years the horror has been creeping across the African continent: a devastating drought that has left in its wake some 35 million starving men, women and children. In Ethiopia alone, where at least 6 million people are destitute, this year's death toll may soon...
In the story that unfolds, the author looks back nearly ten years to the time (1912) when he met and fell in love with Mrs. Frieda Weekley (nee Von Richthofen), wife of a Nottingham professor and mother of three children. Lawrence's decision to run away with her to...
NAIPAUL COULD have told a very different story about the Ivory Coast. With a relatively high level of national income and one of the continent's best universities, it is one of Black Africa's few economic success stories. But these facts receive scant attention in Naipaul's work. Naipaul...
To scientists, putting the demands of native custom before those of scientific knowledge is a disturbing trend. Ancient bones often provide the sole link to prehistoric societies, giving evidence of diet, brain size, stature, disease and longevity. Should scientists be deprived of the right to study these precious fossils, says...