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Even Sports Illustrated came knocking last Friday for an interview with America’s new premier poet, a baseball fan who has written both poetry and prose about his favorite sport...
...Jiabao's whistle-stop tour through Africa last week marked the third visit to the continent by top Chinese leaders this year. Since January, Premier Wen, President Hu Jintao and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing have traveled to a total of 15 African countries. Why? Hu insisted during his Congo trip that "China is not seeking selfish interests" in Africa. But with the country's insatiable thirst for energy, Africa has swiftly become one of its key business partners: trade between China and Africa jumped 37% to $40 billion in 2005, and Angola was China's top provider of crude...
...most striking painting in New Delhi's National Gallery of Modern Art, India's premier collection, is up a flight of stairs, in a room on the first floor. Usually hanging in a distant corner, it gives you a jolt when it springs on you. It's a rectangular oil panel: a group of adolescent Brahmins, bare-chested and with gleaming, sacred threads dangling around their torsos, sit cross-legged against a burgundy background. One of them stares at you, one turns away, and the central figure, with a white-and-red paint mark on his forehead, looks beyond...
...time I bought it in 2000, the cartel controlled up to 75% of the world's rough diamonds. The most likely point of origin-statistically speaking-was the mine at Orapa in Botswana. But the symbol of my love also could have come from Russian Siberia or the Premier Mine in South Africa or from the war spoils of Angola. There was no way to trace its history, except to say De Beers' office in London was the probable point of transfer to America. The diamond easily outlasted my busted engagement, but retracing its trip from the mine...
...just a matter of whether I would actually do it and whether I prepared myself to give myself the best shot at it.”Ungar fenced well against league competition, but he had days when he was beatable. Still, he established himself as a premier epee fencer, earning All-Ivy second team honors.As postseason play approached, Ungar stepped it up to another level. He won a bronze medal at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, helping Harvard win the title. Less than 10 days later, Ungar won the NCAA Northeast Regional, clinching a berth in the national tournament...