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...results have been discouraging. Though Tanzanian farmers have traditionally been among Africa's most productive, the country's pricing and distribution system is notoriously inefficient. The government has been forced to import food to feed the population of Dar es Salaam, the capital. As a result, ujamaa has been allowed to die a quiet death, and roughly 85% of the population has gone back to subsistence farming. Meanwhile, the nationalized industries are working at only about 20% of capacity. Tanzania's expensive 1979 military intervention in neighboring Uganda to topple the brutal dictatorship of Idi Amin further accelerated the economic...
Ongoing through June 30. “Life is a Catwalk (La Vida es una Pasarela),” featuring the work of Colombian artist Jaime Ávila. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 61 Kirkland Street. Free...
...loud and firm no, but it is a no that derives from history, not from meanness of spirit. The nightmare of World War II is simply not to be smiled away, first because the war touched everywhere, not just the Western Front, but Piccadilly and the Champs Elyses and Stalingrad. Second, because it was both a war and a crime--6 million Jews and perhaps 4.5 million others exterminated. What Reagan may not understand is that cemeteries house visible ghosts. At Bitburg, the SS troops still rant and hunt. At Bergen-Belsen the children still weep...
...Language Resource Center). If the ability to speak a foreign language isn’t enough, try wearing the super-cool ’80s style headphones. Potential pickup lines include “voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” and “Tu es muy caliente ay ay ay,” but we might need a little help with that pronunciation. Surely a freshman would know where to inflect the “ay?...
...words of JoeSchmoe123 may come back to haunt him someday, when it’s least expected, if AOL is subpoenaed for his AIM transcripts or for a listing of his posts on public forums. Perhaps, entangled in messy separations, angry divorcées will begin calling for their philandering husbands’ online conversations to inflate their settlements. Lives will be ruined and public humiliation imminent, all for seemingly innocuous words typed many years...