Word: guinea
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...talking about the Democratic Primaries, but whether to mute the ads or the game during the Super Bowl), we might take a moment to ponder the ways in which football really is America?s game. With apologies to Bronislaw Malinowski - whose pioneering treatise on the Trobriand Islands off New Guinea led to studies of the ways in which the islanders appropriated cricket and turned it into a native ritual - let?s explore how we Americans took over the primitive sports of soccer and rugby and adapted them to our belief system...
...Department of Music hosts Eric Charry, whose study of Mande music has carried him to Senegal, Mali, Gambia and Guinea. Charry, a professor of music at Wesleyan University, will speak on Jazz and Africa. 5:30 p.m. Free and open to the public; Room 2 in the Music Building...
Lets face it, the capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, gets a bad rap. Many visitors arrive with a litany of security advisories tucked in their briefcases and are destined to sit in hotel rooms, fearful of engaging local people for their entire stay...
...face it, the capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, gets a bad rap. Many visitors arrive with a litany of security advisories tucked in their briefcases and are destined to sit in hotel rooms, fearful of engaging local people for their entire stay. The truth is, most residents of Moresby are generous and friendly. "A lot of the bad reputation is created by some expatriates who live here and is due to their lack of understanding of the culture," says Suzanne Robson, an Australian who has lived in the capital for 12 years. "There is a certain crazy bravado...
...find out how we stacked up against the competition. So we organized a competitive tasting in the kitchen of a local caterer we knew named Martha Stewart. The fate of our dressing now hung in the balance. If we scored poorly, we'd probably give up the ghost. Our guinea pig tasters took their time, dipping, chewing, cleansing, tabulating, and the wait for us was pretty excruciating, like waiting for reviews on opening night. All but two ballots had us number one, and on those two we were ranked second. It was then and there that Paul anointed us Salad...