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...essay was on the mark, but he made a glaring omission [Jan. 26]. If God should choose to talk to us, we would expect him to sound like James Earl Jones. But what about Mrs. God? Why, of course, it would be the voice of a marvelous black woman, Maya Angelou. And what a heavenly sound that would be. A. Lynn Buschhoff, DENVER...
...ancient people of the Yucatán Peninsula were the first to crush cacao into what was later known as xocolatl--what Rosenberg calls the champagne of the Maya and Aztecs--a frothy beverage reserved for the élite and for special occasions. The Spanish took chocolate back to Europe in the 16th century, discovering the pristine and aromatic criollo bean in Venezuela along the way. Until the 19th century, Venezuela produced solely criollo cacao, which satisfied more than half the world's demand for chocolate. But when an infestation came close to wiping out all the cacao in neighboring Trinidad...
Kinsley's essay was on the mark, but he made a glaring omission. If God should choose to talk to us, we would expect him to sound like James Earl Jones. But what about Mrs. God? Why, of course, it would be the voice of a marvelous black woman, Maya Angelou. And what a heavenly sound that would be. A. Lynn Buschhoff, DENVER...
...With reporting by Maya Curry...
...week since that meeting, the cacophony over whether Dati is an icon or a traitor to working women has dominated call-in shows, newspapers and online news sites here. The polling company IFOP found that of the 56% of people who condemned Dati's decision, most were women. Maya Surduts of the National Collective for the Rights of Women called Dati's decision a "scandal," arguing that employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to cut short their maternity leave - enshrined in French law as 16 weeks' paid leave. Florence Montreynaud of the feminist organization Chiennes...