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...common impression of Africa owes more to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness than we would like to let on: Africa is inscrutable, wild, primitive and decades away from genuine modernization. Like the European businessmen in Conrad's 1902 novel, we assume Africa's only assets come from the land or beneath it. In the Heart of Darkness it was ivory. Now it is oil and minerals...
Eric also canvases, but is the quieter member of the pair, preferring to let Johnny dance outside the Science Center while he speaks about his passion for change, government, and computer science...
...It’s a weakness,” admitted Johnson, though he refuses to let Long off the hook for being what he describes as “too intellectual, too smart, and too interesting.” Indeed, the bro-mance behind the Long-Johnson ticket seems all too obvious...
...couldn't be hidden by all the blood in his mouthpiece. Everyone who saw it knew that he knew at that moment that he was going to win the fight. Not that his partisans had any doubt. The MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas roared like never before. "Let's go, Manny!" reverberated again and again as the crowd demanded that their champion finish off his opponent and win glory for the Philippines...
...sure, not everything in a museum's collection is worth keeping, let alone putting on display. Das puts it diplomatically: "Sometimes [donors]bring us wonderful things, and sometimes, well, they're not quite...