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...even doom has nuances, and like Africa it has a thousand layers of meaning. The "margin" of one thing is also the center of something else. Africa has its own "centers," its resources of vitality and resilience. It operates by its own inner dynamics and metaphysics. Africa looks hopeless, but it is not. In many ways the continent is headed in the right direction for the first time in centuries. Real changes for the better are occurring. Africa is evolving African solutions...
...continent's inner rhythms of development were shattered 400 years ago by the intrusion of Europeans, who brought in alien controls, boundaries and forms of government. But for the first time since 1444, when the Portuguese sailed into the "land of the blacks" to establish slaving forts, Africa is mostly free from outside interference. Despots are falling; here and there, democracy precariously takes hold. Improvised alternative economies flourish...
...anxiety behind the phrase "family values" may derive from an intimation of such breakdown, a flicker of the instant when the moral slippery slope may swivel like a trapdoor to right angles. Americans see the inner Ik all the time these days. They glimpsed it out of the corner of the eye for a moment when an 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was abandoned at the dog track in Post Falls, Idaho, last March. A cautionary scene -- and it turned into a morning talk-show joke: "It's dog-track time for you, doofus!" the host with...
...oldest (founded in 1935), a three-stage jamboree built on Bardolatry that draws 370,000 spectators a year, 90% from more than 125 miles away. With minor variations this scene also takes place in Boulder, Colorado; Cedar City, Utah; San Diego; Houston; Dallas; Orlando, Florida; an inner-city park in Louisville, Kentucky; the grounds of a legendary mansion alongside the Hudson River; New York City's Central Park; and dozens of other locales. According to Felicia Londre, secretary of the Shakespeare Theater Association of America, the U.S. has about 100 outdoor Shakespeare festivals. Some have grown, like Ashland's, into...
...Republican platform offers kudos of Quaylefor his tough stand against lawyers. It supportsEnterprise Zones in the inner cities and opposeslegislation to limit the proliferation offirearms. "Those who seek to disarm citizens intheir homes are the same liberals who tried todisarm the nation during the Cold War," it reads...