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...Honourable Minister of Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City,” whose title was announced in full ad nauseum, gave a speech that embodied the tenor. The only time this man lit up was a one-paragraph run (out of what must have been a 50-page speech) where he named some of Ghana’s many problems, hinting that blacks in the diaspora could help out a little more. On slavery, which the blacks from the Americas had come to hear about, he remained stolidly mum, except to ramble something about, what else...
...delusional optimism on my part? Because I am, and always will be, a giant dork. When I was eight, I was massacring the summer reading contest at my local library. I would walk around, book open, eyes glued to the page. And if that wasn’t enough, I had a penchant for writing short stories, a large number of which involved sarcastic mice narrators. Certainly a chance to write a poem or create a tale or write an editorial would be a fun way to spend a summer...
When visitors arrive to see Condoleezza Rice on the seventh floor of the State Department, they are seated down the corridor from Rice's office, in a drawing room decorated with patterned carpets, Georgian furniture and a grandfather clock. Above one sofa hangs a framed, four-page document, typewritten and signed with the initials "GM." It is the original copy of the most famous speech ever made by a U.S. Secretary of State: George Marshall's commencement address at Harvard in 1947, the speech that led to the passage of the European Recovery Act, later known as the Marshall Plan...
...haven't kept up withthe best band of the past decade, Jumpers is a 4 1/2-min. refresher course. The lyrics--about considering a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge--read smart on the page, but they take on a tragic intensity in Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker's interwoven vocals...
...launched a preview of its new free Web portal, featuring a good video search that has already indexed more than 1 million video clips ? Later this summer, MSN will debut its Virtual Earth feature, which will compete with Google Earth and offer even more detailed images. Its new search page, search.msn.com, has a "local search" feature and is increasingly powerful and easy...