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...simple, lighthearted mysteries solved by Precious Ramotswe (often addressed as Mma - pronounced "ma" - Ramotswe). His latest, Tea Time For the Traditionally Built, trods much of the same territory. McCall Smith spoke to TIME about why all fiction doesn't need to be sad, the public's obsession with the idea of a hopeless Africa, and why "real" mystery writers are cooler than...
...woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about "Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains." The whole experience spun me around. I really thought this was going to be a fun fling, and I had no idea that it would become this finding my soul mate, the love-of-my-life sort of deal. It does make you feel reticent about talking about it at the beginning because you're not sure if it's real, if it's going to stick. I didn't want to pull...
...First Parish in Cambridge. Along with co-sponsors like the Harvard Book Store, the Lowell Institute, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Cambridge Forum hosted Stiles as part of their weekly forums on “cost.” “We are looking at the idea of cost, and obviously the financial world is important in cost. Vanderbilt is one of the architects of the American economy today,” said Patricia Suhrcke, the director of the Cambridge Forum. The Cambridge Forum—which has been operating for 42 years—reaches listeners nationwide...
...border is a crossing point, not a canyon, and just a brief look at the numbers offer an idea of how busy that crossing point is. In January and February of this year, some $16 billion in exports went south from the U.S., while some $21 billion of imports came north, according to the Texas Center for Border Economy and Enterprise Development at Texas A&M International University. In Brownsville alone, in the first two months of this year, there were 297,478 legal pedestrian crossings north and 284,662 legal southbound crossings. Personal-vehicle crossings were almost double that...
...sages of the U.S. Supreme Court have, over the years, determined that segregating the races is a way of treating them equally and that forced sterilization to improve the gene pool is a swell idea. Generations of doctors bought into Freud's theories of mental illness. Eminent military historian John Keegan traces the catastrophic stupidity of World War I to the fact that European nations began training their smartest officers to make strategic plans. Eventually, they made such fine, lean plans that, like concentrated ozone, they exploded on contact...