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...Ngugi wa Thiong'o means Ngugi, son of Thiong'o), and soon after vowed to write only in native languages like Gikuyu and Swahili. That was when he took his place as one of the fathers of modern African literature. It's a role that brings trouble along with honor. In 1977, Ngugi wrote I Will Marry When I Want, a play that critiques Kenya's neocolonial society. After it was performed, the theater was burned to the ground and Ngugi thrown in jail. He was released a year later - thanks to Amnesty International - with a new novel, Devil...
...prepared to write and extend additional coverage in some states? We are not. Not until there's much more clarity around whether those states are going to honor the insurance contract...
...they going to honor what's been the typical [differentiation] between wind and water? Sometimes that means where risks have gotten much higher than they used to be, we simply can't continue to write down there. For a while, Florida had a thousand families a day moving in, home values have escalated rapidly, and yet the rate increases we're allowed to charge [by state regulators] have not kept pace with that. So we've made some hard decisions and scaled back our coverage in Florida, the Gulf Coast and in some of the exposed areas in New York...
WHADDYA KNOW? If you know what number Da Bears retired to honor Dick Butkus, you'll probably score pretty high in the new NFL Gridiron Trivia Challenge game. If you're asking "Dick who?", you haven't got a Hail Mary's chance...
...nothing more than the flip side of the stories during the 1950s and '60s that claimed women went to college only to find husbands [July 31]. I didn't care to be stereotyped that way back then, and as the mother of 18-year-old twin sons who are honor students, eagle scouts, Young Democrats and all-around solid citizens, I deeply resent such a demeaning picture of the current crop of young men. Surely there are also plenty of unfocused, lazy, binge-drinking young women on today's campuses. Christina M. Kapma Springfield, Ohio...