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...went there. Lo and behold, i stumbled upon the admin interface for the entire database this site runs off of. So i read through all the entrance questions and wanted to add a few, knowing that if anyone, you guys could surely handle a good prank, or in this case a mediocre one. Unfortunately, i couldn't add new ones, so i had to alter two existing ones...
...Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is of African-American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold, I began to find family members. Once the 'Aha!' factor and the 'Oh, wow!' factor take over, you don't mind the hunt...
...culture that will visit 20 North American cities starting in early June. Joining her will be several other African singing stars, most of them little known in America, including Salif Keita (a huge star in his native Mali), Papa Wemba (from the Democratic Republic of Congo) and newcomer Cheikh Lo (of Senegal). Their sounds can be heard on Africa Fete '98, a companion album just released by Island Records. Taken together, the tour and the album offer American audiences their best chance in years to hear some of the most interesting and innovative African pop around...
With rocks crashing through his windows, an iron spike punching holes through his kitchen door and a mob outside baying "Burn! Burn!," Philip Lo discovered the meaning of terror last Thursday as he cowered for two hours with his family inside a locked bedroom...
...This is like being in a war," said the ethnic-Chinese pastor whose church and adjoining house were attacked during riots in Jakarta that left around 400 dead and hundreds of stores looted and gutted by fire. "All we could hear was things being smashed up outside," said Lo. He and his family escaped injury, but their food stocks were carried off, their car was burned and the inside of the church was ransacked. Lo knows he was targeted because the Chinese minority is perceived as more affluent than most Indonesians. "This is a problem of the stomach. People...