Word: ethiopia
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That's where photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher come in. For 25 years, working separately and then together, the two women have crisscrossed the continent from Senegal to Ethiopia, from Morocco to South Africa, observing and documenting traditional native ceremonies. Although not working scientists (Fisher was trained as a sociologist before she switched to photography; Beckwith came to the field from a background in art), they have studied their subjects with the thoroughness of professional researchers, visiting all but seven of Africa's 53 nations and capturing on film most of the rituals that are still practiced...
...Mozambique is expected to dominate the women's 800, and possibly the 1,500, where she'll face defending champion Hassiba Boulmerka of Algeria. Boulmerka's countryman and fellow 1,500 runner, Noureddine Morceli, may be the firmest favorite in any track event, with the possible exception of Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, world-record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000, or Kenya's Moses Kiptanui, who owns the six fastest marks in the steeplechase. The heat and humidity will open up the marathons, although Spain's world champion Martin Fiz is good in hot weather, and Uta Pippig...
...Samaritan's Purse, into a $32 million-a-year operation providing food, medicine and other aid in global crisis zones, while preaching the gospel to its beneficiaries and anyone else in the area. With Franklin--often literally--in the cockpit, Samaritan's Purse parachuted into places like Bosnia, Haiti, Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra...
MENGISTU HAILE MARIAM, 59; Ousted Marxist President of Ethiopia From 1977 to 1991, he ruled supreme. Now he is Addis Ababa's most reviled criminal defendant. Five years after he was driven out of his country by rebels, Ethiopia's Red Terror despot is being tried on charges of murder and genocide--in absentia. The guest of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe since 1991 (apparently in gratitude for the help he gave Mugabe's independence struggle in the 1970s), Mengistu lives in luxurious exile in a government-supplied villa in an exclusive suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, safe from repeated...
...recent landing in Mississippi, however, the road-warrior reverend found his path strewn with obstacles. Few states have embraced gambling so wholeheartedly. Since 1992, when the first riverboat casino floated down the Mississippi River to Tunica, the desperately poor county that Jesse Jackson once called "America's Ethiopia," 28 casinos have sprung up from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast. These garish palaces employ 27,300 people and last year put $189 million into state and local coffers. "Hey, look, Tom Grey, gaming is working here in Mississippi!" declares host Rip Daniels, welcoming Grey to his talk show...