Word: malawi
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...high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather to discuss the biological causes of altruism. They also enjoy unusual access to the world: in the midst of Conservative Party turmoil, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd...
Dangalira K. Mughogho '94 is an international student from Malawi...
...MALAWI...
Munthali, then an apparatchik in the ruling Malawi Congress Party, fled the country in 1964 with a group of dissident Cabinet Ministers. From abroad they organized a movement to oppose the despotic Hastings Kamuzu Banda, then Malawi's Prime Minister and since 1971 President for Life. Munthali, who is in his early 60s, reportedly returned to Malawi in 1965 and was arrested. By some accounts, Munthali was never tried. According to others, he was charged with a firearms offense, served an eleven-year prison term, was immediately detained again when it expired and has been held since without charge...