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...Fans of Precious Ramotswe, "the only lady private detective in Botswana," can now walk in the "traditionally built" woman's footprints through the capital of Gaborone and the surrounding countryside. The Mma Ramotswe's Botswana tours are based on the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of books by Zimbabwe-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and are run by local safari company Africa Insight (www.africainsight.com...
...Fans of Precious Ramotswe, "the only lady private detective in Botswana," can now walk in the "traditionally built" woman's footprints through the capital of Gaborone and the surrounding countryside. The Mma Ramotswe's Botswana tours are based on the best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of books by Zimbabwe-born Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, and are run by local safari company Africa Insight (www.africainsight.com). The tours, which have been personally tested by McCall Smith, started two years ago, but are expected to get a boost when director Anthony Minghella's television series based on the fictional...
...Crimson, as it has done all season, erased a sizeable deficit off of the start by the 1,200-meter mark. Harvard inched back with a strong move against Cornell and came up even with the Big Red, using the push to gain precious ground on a confident Yale crew. Navy, which entered the race as the country’s No. 2 crew, sat within three or four seats of third-place Cornell...
...Sullivan's hopelessness for the inclusion of Catholic females in the modern church. I have a fulfilling high-profile job, and I also have a rewarding role in the church. I speak to our parish from the pulpit; I assist each week in serving the Holy Eucharist. Much precious energy is wasted by women fighting to become a priest. They could, instead, use that same energy to do most of the things that a priest does. What is wrong with a few positions in the world belonging exclusively to one sex? Only women give birth to children. Surely that...
...columnists, tireless public servants though we may seem, do occasionally turn our minds towards ways to improve our academic lots in life—which is to say, our GPAs. There are, in this modern era of curved grades carefully designed to hide their obvious inflation from prying eyes, precious few ways left to do this. One could, of course, study harder—write a better paper, read even the sourcebook articles that have been overlooked in section and so on—but this seems like an option for saps and people trying to make it into...