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...South American city: brazen political corruption, misinformation, and bureaucracy like you wouldn’t believe are everyday realities here, not to mention a serious paucity of quality electronics.Better to find a local milonga ($3-5 US), a dance hall where ordinary Argentines go to tango until dawn: It’s much more unpredictable, surprising, moving, and, in its own breathtakingly nonchalant way, sensual, much like Buenos Aires itself. Some of the most rewarding experiences to be had in this metropolis involve doing ordinary things with ordinary people. My favorite moment in the city unfolded in an unglamorous barrio...
...with our brothers and sisters in Palestine and in Lebanon," he said to thundering applause in Amman University's Arena Hall before dedicating his next song to all those suffering in the Middle East. "As Allah says in the Quran, 'With hardship, there comes ease and comfort.' God willing, dawn is near, and night will pass. We should never lose hope...
...shuttle diplomacy dramatically upended, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was somber as she addressed the press at 11:35 a.m. Sunday in Jerusalem. ?I am deeply saddened by the terrible loss of innocent life in the bombing in Lebanon this morning,? she said of the Israeli military?s pre-dawn attack on a Lebanese village that killed more than 60 people, including a large number of children...
NAIROBI, Kenya—It is my third visit in as many summers to sub-Saharan Africa. I now realize being even slightly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed was foolish. My first day here, waking to the dawn, having a quick tea, sharpening pencils, readying my digital camera, powering up my laptop—doing all those things one must do in readiness for an archive filled with glorious, old, virginal glimpses from the past— I was in the groove for historical research.My excitement lasted until around 8:45 a.m., when some wrangling in Swahili with the archives?...
...months passed, Andrea improved. She started swimming again, doing a furious 70 laps at dawn in the neighborhood pool. She planted milkweed to attract the butterflies that she and Noah loved. In a rare confession, she told Rusty she felt she had "failed" at the simple life in the bus. But she turned the front den into a classroom to home school Noah and the other kids. When they studied horses, they read Black Beauty and went riding real ones. When they were learning about Indians, she crafted a cardboard diorama including pretend deerskin stretched across twigs. To show...