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...more than 1.2 million subscribers in 41 African nations. Though the majority of M-Net's subscribers are in South Africa, as only a tiny percentage of Africans own television sets, millions gather in clubs and restaurants across the continent to watch the real-life daily soap opera unfold. Television has succeeded where politics failed in creating a new Pan-Africanism, bringing together Africans not only on the screen, but also in the local dive. Proponents praise the program for bridging cultural gaps and eroding misconceptions that Africans of different nationalities hold of one another...
...holidays during the winter months and has a wonderful traditional and contemporary art collection. After that, travel a few minutes further down the road to the Chongdong Theater, tel: (82-2) 751 1500, and you can take in a traditional Korean performing art such as pansori, or Korean opera. It's a good idea to call ahead to make a reservation. There are also plenty of inexpensive good restaurants in the area that serve up popular Korean dishes...
There's no surer sign of a fading soap opera than a lurid plot twist. Unlike their glossy American counterparts, British soaps like the long-running, top-rated EastEnders traditionally aim for stolid social realism, depicting ordinary folk pursuing humdrum lives. Now, though, dwindling audiences are spurring EastEnders' producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. In a recent plotline, a character was taken hostage by his deranged stepson and saw his wife shot as she came to his rescue...
...lips. It’s not out of the ordinary to hear your neighbors in Dunster—the thinly-lined walls lend themselves to a bit of eavesdropping—but this sound is unlike most. It’s the deep, heavy sound of a tenor, an opera singing senior.But while the sound itself is surprising, what’s even more unexpected is the source of the resonance. It comes from a ball-carrying, run-blocking fullback.Until this year, though, the exploits of Noah Van Niel, the multi-talented starter for the Harvard football team, had gone...
...marsupials, Australia seems short of identity icons. There is, of course, Ayers Rock, the most sublime stone on earth. There is also the incomparable Great Barrier Reef, a single coral organism some 1,250 miles long. We have two famous structures, both in Sydney: the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, the latter a masterpiece by the Danish architect Jorn Utzon. Perched on one of the world's most beautiful sites for a ceremonial building, a headland in Sydney Harbor, and surrounded on three sides by sapphire water, this great building was never seen in completion by its architect...