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Yellot, who has been a lynchpin of the Crimson offense all season had a relatively quiet game, with just one assist and one shot on goal...
Delight is the slightly rumpled, bow-tied McCall Smith's operative mode. His books--The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tears of the Giraffe, Morality for Beautiful Girls and The Kalahari Typing School for Men--which detail the quiet and quirky adventures of Botswanan sleuth Mma (pronounced Ma, the most correct way of addressing women in Botswana) Ramotswe, have become international word-of-mouth hits, sold millions and been translated into 26 languages, partly because of their sheer cheerfulness...
Cupboard finds Ramotswe on the case of a successful businesswoman who wants to know whether her suitors are after her for love or money. As in all the other books, McCall Smith draws heavily on his happy childhood years in what was then Rhodesia. He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which lies just southwest of Zimbabwe and which McCall Smith, whose day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh, got to know while helping set up the law school in Gaborone in the early '80s. "In Botswana, even in the small transactions of life, people...
...America, that noise levels are becoming unbearable. During the summer months, I like to open my windows and enjoy the fresh warm air, but I have to shut them quickly because of the racket from outdoors. You said that Rueter may move to New Zealand for some peace and quiet: Can I go too? ELVA WOITO Cambridge...
...computer were to design the perfect U.N. Secretary-General, he or she would look something like this: African born; European and American educated, with decades of service in the U.N. system; married to a European; and possessing a quiet charisma and calm authority as chaos swirls...