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...refugees of 16,000 by May 21, have unearthed a dark truth: xenophobia can be as much about poverty as skin color. The grim tide of killing, raping, burning and hacking that has torn through the northeastern province of Gauteng is centered on shanty towns such as Alexandra and Kya Sand that form a ring of destitution around Africa's commercial capital. While South Africa's overall economy grows at a steady 4% to 5% and Johannesburg's business district accounts for 9% of Africa's GDP, according to the province's economic development agency, on the city's outskirts...
...where he grew up and where his father before him and his son after him tend the long-horned herds. As the cows file through the gate to the communal wateringhole, Museveni softly calls each by name. "This one is Gaju Ya Bihogo," he says. "That one is Kiremba Kya Ngabo. The gray one over there is descended from my grandfather's herd." Surveying the cattle with an expert eye, he asks his herdsman why one is limping, who is the mother of this young one. "Good cows," he says, "need good politics...
...Robert Kya-Hill, in a white robe with gold trim, is an imposing Prince of Morocco, but he doesn't get out of the part as much as Earle Hyman did a decade ago. (As often done, Morocco's two scenes are fused into one, which is detrimental to the play's structure, such as it is). When he chooses wrong and has departed, Portia points up the racial slur in her tag-line, "Let all of his complexion choose me so." As for the Prince of Arragon, James Valentine makes him a heavily accented and logorrheicninny; and, when...
...fate, Marwaris began emigrating to the city three generations back, becoming small shopkeepers in Calcutta or Bombay. They work longer and harder than anyone else, lend a helping hand to each other (there are no Marwari beggars), and single-mindedly devote themselves to pursuing profit. Their guiding philosophy is Kya Bhau?, or What's the price...
...good diction. Last week, on the grounds that he had inherited enough of his father's magic to hold down a regular news commentator assignment, two small California stations signed him for a five-a-week schedule. (Both stations, Los Angeles' KLAC and San Francisco's KYA, are owned by the New Dealing, New York Post-publishing Thackreys...