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...with his own face. The dreams finally drove him to seek out his past. He flew to Ghana, he says, "to find out what I was made of." Eshun chronicles his travels - visiting forts, braving the not-so-wild elephants of a national park - with humour and insight. The crux of the book is Eshun's discovery about his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Joseph de Graft, a Dutch slave trader and an ancestor of Eshun's on his mother's side, settled in Ghana in the 1750s and married a local chief's daughter. When De Graft left...
...this approach has marked the crux of the problem for Harvard, which has made ID numbers easily available while continuing to use them as confidential identifiers...
Frist’s remarks on South Korea veered away from the crux of his speech: a warning that the world could soon face “a front of unchecked and virulent epidemics...
Frist’s remarks on South Korea veered away from the crux of his speech: a warning that the world could soon face “a front of unchecked and virulent epidemics...
Frist’s remarks on South Korea veered away from the crux of his speech: a warning that the world could soon face “a front of unchecked and virulent epidemics...