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My father was a missionary among the colored, or mixed-race, people of Beaufort West in an area of scrubland that is South Africa's version of Arizona. That's where I was born, and now the house where I was born is a museum. Next door is the church...
So what highly marketable skill are these Swiss youngsters acquiring? Computerized 3-D animation? Some slick new graphics software? Think again. Like generations before them in the high mountain valleys of the Swiss Jura, Sandra and Bastien are discovering the intricacies of mechanical watchmaking. "Forty years ago, people were learning...
The impulse to escape, to vanish: Imagine what paroxysms of weariness and twitchingly muscle-bound identity must overcome a man when eight years of self-abnegation as vice president, playing woodenhead second banana and stunt double to a character like Bill Clinton, are followed by a grinding presidential campaign, itself...
Is there a connection? While each armed conflict arises out of unique political circumstances, the economics of insurgency may be similar all over the world. In a nutshell, it's not really a middle class pursuit. Give a young man a gun and show him how to use it, and...
Born into the grinding poverty of a lower-caste family in Uttar Pradesh, she was married off to a widower at age 11 who beat and tortured her. She ran away from him but was shunned by her village elders, and spent her early teenage years in the violent world...