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...enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." The book is written in the same brusque style, and its language can get a little profane. The introduction to poulet r?ti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint" for the faux-filet au beurre rouge. Betty Crocker...
Mention Ethiopia today, and most people still think of starving, helpless stick figures scrambling in the dust for food. So strong is the picture of famine and hunger that Ethiopian Airlines' offices around the world still field inquiries from travelers wondering whether they should bring their own meals for the flight. Upon hearing that the song had been rerecorded, an Ethiopian friend of mine, Edna Berhane, who works in public health in Africa, was worried that it sent the same old negative message: "Here we go again. It's been 20 years, but Africa is still mired in its misery...
Victims of an illegal war of choice, helpless civilians are ripped asunder by showers of bombs and bullets, while others are driven from their homes only to suffer the mortal pangs of disease and malnutrition. State-sponsored militias and killing squads swoop down into villages and ravage them, going from street to street and house to house, propelled by an extraordinary sense of revenge and right. Places of worship are rehabilitated into killing fields, where the wounded and infirm are annihilated in the presence of God. These invaders, some indigenous and some from far-off lands, do not fight...
...enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit." The book is written in the same brusque style, and its language can get a little profane. The introduction to poulet rôti gently proclaims, "If you can't properly roast a damn chicken then you're one helpless, hopeless, sorry-ass bivalve in an apron." Pearl onions are "little f____ers." And butter should be formed into a log "like you would roll a joint" for the faux-filet au beurre rouge. Betty Crocker...
...good for the people of Ethiopia, and for that it should be praised. But it also left another, perhaps more powerful legacy: the image of Ethiopia as a land "where nothing ever grows/ No rain nor rivers flow." Mention Ethiopia today, and most people still think of starving, helpless stick figures scrambling in the dust for food. So strong is the picture of famine and hunger that Ethiopian Airlines' offices around the world still field inquiries from travelers wondering whether they should bring their own meals for the flight. Upon hearing that the song had been re-recorded, an Ethiopian...