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Tourism is South Africa's fastest-growing industry, thanks to safaris, white-water rafting and beautiful beaches. But a decade after democratic elections consigned apartheid to the dustbin of history, visitors have also begun to appreciate the country's urban buzz, particularly the pleasures and intrigue of Johannesburg and Cape Town...
...year began with the study of religion nearly becoming required of all Harvard undergraduates. It ends with that idea in the dustbin of general education and two top religion professors on their...
...fulfilling these basic requirements, flexibility for which students plead can be achieved. To the Faculty, we propose an armistice in these academic skirmishes: no bruised egos, no inflexible or convoluted Core-like requirements. Let us consign the Curricular Review’s hopeful, yet ultimately unworkable innovations to the dustbin of failed projects and impractical dreams. Vote down the current General Education proposal and instead institute a broad and flexible distribution requirement...
...belief that Sri Lanka's Sinhalese Buddhist majority will never treat the country's mostly Hindu Tamil minority as equals or give them the autonomy they long for. Since independence in 1948, "all the agreements we have reached have been torn up and thrown into the dustbin," L.T.T.E. Peace Secretariat secretary-general Pulee Devan told TIME by phone from the Tigers' jungle base in Kilinochchi, in the north. "Fifty years' experience has dictated to us that there is no big difference who is in power in the capital. They have all failed to deliver any meaningful settlement to the Tamil...
...never repented - never saw the need to. Markus Wolf was so clever a spymaster that the fact he worked for East Germany, a repugnant regime that rightly disappeared into history's dustbin, never dented the massive ego that had driven his success. When he died Thursday at 83, quietly in his Berlin apartment, on the 17th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf thought himself a victim of victor's justice that had denied him the esteem he deserved-and he took countless secrets to his grave...