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...clear: Angola's decision to hold an international football match in Cabinda was an extremely poor one. Cabinda is an oil-rich province where the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (Flec) is fighting for independence and a fair share of oil revenues. But you can hardly blame that decision on South Africa or extrapolate that the Jan. 8 attack portends disaster for the World Cup. What about the fact that South Africa is years ahead of Angola in terms of industrialization, organization and experience in running sporting events? What about the fact that South Africa recently...
What do women's pictures have against women? So often recently, romantic comedies create a female lead who's successful in business but a nag, a ditz or klutz at human relationships. And when it comes to men, she's myopic: she can't see Andy Adorable right in front of her. These afflictions beset the career gals played by Sandra Bullock in The Proposal, Katherine Heigl in The Ugly Truth and Sarah Jessica Parker in Did You Hear About the Morgans?. All were obliged to take a course in sensitivity training, at feature-film length, to nudge them into...
Readers of the Cambridge Chronicle—the inferior other Cambridge newspaper—may have noticed a rather strange placement of a sticker advertisement on this week's front page...
Reibman wrote that the advertisement had been ordered and scheduled way before the news article had been written, and that the stickers had been placed onto the newspapers by a machine about 25 miles away from the building that created the front page...
...World Trade Organization, deemed in 2007 that the U.S. is meeting appropriate beef safety standards. Many Taiwanese, however, are still not convinced. After the new agreement was signed in October, thousands protested in Taiwan, with one student even eating a cow dung burger (worms and all) in front of the presidential office to demand the government renegotiate. "The Ma administration underestimated people's worries," says Yen Chen-shen, a research fellow at National Chengchi University's Institute of International Relations. "They never really tried to ensure Taiwanese consumers that this is going to be safe...