Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bhutan arrows whistle through the silent air. Citizens, dressed by law in medieval robes, saunter past buildings, constructed by law in traditional fortress style. There is no television yet in the Hidden Kingdom, and airlines first arrived during the '80s. Last year the country saw scarcely 1,500 tourists (or roughly the same number that pour into Disneyland every hour...
Besides regularly contributing to philosophical and cultural publications, he coedits, with Gates, Transition, a journal "which looks at the world from within the African diaspora." This summer, he completed a manuscript of a book of proverbs from Asanti, the kingdom in which he grew up. And he is currently editing The Oxford Book of African Literature...
...since he has documented leopard attacks on gorillas. Samory, one of the trackers, claims leopards kill the immensely strong apes with surprise attacks in which the cat quickly snaps its jaws around the gorilla's throat. The Ndoki may be innocent of humans, but it is not a peaceable kingdom...
...These people are not operate in a backroom. They have to operate in fishbowl because they have government, alumni, and student's money," he added. "Harvard Management is like the Kingdom of Oz. You don't know what is real and what is unreal...
Finally -- at least momentarily -- it looked as if there was magic in the latest version of the Magic Kingdom. During most of the two months since its opening at Marne-la-Vallee outside Paris, the entertainment complex has been dogged by downbeat news. Euro Disneyland has drawn about 1.5 million visitors, a number that barely matches early projections. The stock of the Euro Disney holding company, once the rage of the Paris Bourse, has posted a 20% decline since opening day. In a letter to shareholders two weeks ago, company chairman Robert Fitzpatrick confessed that there could be "no assurance...