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Antarctica also plays tricks with time and space. The vast, treeless continent conveys the awesome inertia of a place where motion is noticeable only on a geological time scale, as though the extreme cold flowing out from the polar plateau has slowed the pulse of life itself. On the ice...
Even as she sped past her 100th year, Sister Mary projected the energy and enthusiasm of a much younger woman. With the aid of a magnifying glass, she kept abreast of national affairs by reading newspapers and magazines. With the aid of a globe, she prayed for the women and...
Panelist Mathatha Tsedu, a native South African and a Neiman Foundation fellow, dismissed what he termed Richburg's "horrifying generalizations that paint a picture of a good-for-nothing continent."
Proponents of certification countered that trade and immigration links, not to mention a 2,000-mile border, made amicable relations with Mexico imperative. Swallowing his humiliation in the Gutierrez affair, McCaffrey told the press last week, "It is our belief that the U.S. and Mexico are trapped economically, culturally, politically...
But Johnson looks far beyond Tokyo to the rest of a rapidly prospering continent. Fidelity already manages pension assets in Australia, and began selling mutual funds in Taiwan in 1986 and in South Korea in 1995. From regional headquarters in Hong Kong, the company is studying the Malaysian and Philippine...