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...recent trip to Mexico, I took a day tour of Mayan villages. The nine young Swiss, Americans and New Zealanders on the tour engaged fully with the guide, looking, listening, and asking questions. The five young Britons hung back, loudly and boorishly swapping notes about where to get cheap booze and which drinking places had the best happy hours. Last year, at home in New Zealand, I gave a ride to a twentysomething English hitchhiker whose only "travel stories" of his time in Australia and New Zealand were a monotonous succession of boasts about how often and heavily...
Tsvangirai, 56, became accustomed to responsibility at an early age. The son of a carpenter and bricklayer from Gutu, south of the capital, Harare, and the eldest of nine, he quit school early to work the nickel mines of Mashonaland in northern Zimbabwe. In 10 years, he rose from plant operator to general foreman. Under the white government of the time, there was more than one way for a political aspirant to agitate for change. Mugabe fought for freedom; Tsvangirai chose the mine-workers union. In 1980, Mugabe, then 56, inaugurated a free Zimbabwe. Eight years later, Tsvangirai became secretary...
...offense has been stagnant—we’re feeling it one through nine,” Walsh said. “Everybody’s trying to do something. We can’t get it going...
Stenson recalls visiting a small house with three rooms each “only about the size of a typical Harvard bedroom.” The house was shared by nine people...
...face trouble finding competition. Gaber notes that even though her team “had to keep up regular practices,” they only had three games in their fall season. Similarly, Segal says that in his freshman year, Men’s JV Soccer had eight or nine games, but the number dropped to three by his junior season.“That’s not too good for a club that is supposed to be more of a legit team,” says Segal, citing his team’s frequent seven a.m. practices...