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...amiable monarch amid courtiers, he bows gracefully to kiss a woman's hand and banters politely with a local Jesuit priest before herding everyone across an immense terrace toward a buffet laden with lobster and thick steaks. In the 100 degrees heat, a wave of satisfaction seems to envelop the presidential party, a sense that all is still well in this remote hinterland far from the chaos afflicting the rest of the country...
Quist decided to change his major. Anacceptance letter from Harvard convinced him toleave Ghana as well. He says that to save oninternational postage, the admissions office senthim just one sheet of paper with some pictures ofHarvard and a list of activities, not the usualbulky envelop stuffed with fliers from everyextracurricular group. he got his first view ofHarvard as a member of dorm crew...
Beer and cigarette smoke mix in the darkness, giving way to an ambience of noisy excitement and adventure. Performers sway and jump, creating blurs in the colored spotlights. The experience is surreal: the blaring rhythms of the music, and the contrast between the darkness and tungsten highlights serve to envelop the senses, overwhelming reality...
Gorbachev tries to head off his worst crisis, with the integrity of his country at stake. -- African wars envelop millions in famine and death. -- China's empty gesture. -- Voices of East Berlin...
...consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop the historic implications of his campaign in a protective cloak of Bill Cosbyesque banalities...