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...with profiles of ZANU heroes who have been dead for 30 years. Mugabe's men obsessively blame Britain, the old colonial power, for all Zimbabwe's problems today. Mugabe - a man who wears impeccable suits and drinks afternoon tea - is "half African and half British," says his biographer Heidi Holland, "and the two halves hate each other." In a Harare hotel, I meet Christopher Mutsvangwa, a ZANU supporter, businessman and former ambassador to China, whose clock seems to have stopped at independence in 1980. "Losing [Zimbabwe] was a very traumatic experience for British imperial pride," he says, "and they feel...
...country, such a question—as impulsive as it seems—would rarely garner anything but a short laugh and clarification from me, or, I think it’s safe to say, from anyone who looks remotely Arab. But in Holland, as I soon found out, Moroccans possess a universally-accepted, second-class social status—as do most other “allochtoon,” a now-derogatory word for “immigrant.” Ask any Dutch person, and he or she will (bluntly) tell you the same...
...really nice day. Then you hear a bang. Everyone looks up, and you see people flying through the air.' PETER VON DE VORST, Dutch journalist, after a driver plowed his car into spectators at a royal parade in Holland, killing seven...
...tradition,” Shapiro says, “we opened auditions up to the rest of the school and the public.”“The Pregnant Pause” is being directed by 2005 Boston College graduate Krista D’Agostino, co-founder of Holland Productions, a company that “promotes the female voice on Boston stages.” D’Agostino performed in an Adams production back in 2006. “I had a ton of fun doing it back in 2006, so I joined in on the directorial...
...line drug policy, supporting only international agreements that enforce drug prohibition and imposing on its citizens some of the world's harshest penalties for drug possession and sales. Yet America has the highest rates of cocaine and marijuana use in the world, and while most of the E.U. (including Holland) has more liberal drug laws than the U.S., it also has less drug...