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...course, just a random ugly experience - the kind of thing that can happen anywhere. But it was the first day I'd ever spent in South Africa, and it left an impression. As I'd discovered firsthand, it can be hard to escape the damaging clichés about Africa - about the perennial curses of bribery, corruption and lawlessness. These negative associations with Africa were much on the minds of people at the summit in Cape Town. "We are fighting an image problem," said Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-born cell-phone magnate who has created a multi-million-dollar prize...
...perhaps my experience wasn't so random, after all. Sure enough, a few days after the forum, I received an e-mail from a friend saying his home in Cape Town had just been burgled on his birthday and two laptops, four passports and $5,000 in cash had been stolen. He dubbed it "that extra-special South African birthday surprise." A new dawn may be coming, but it isn't here quite...
...doesn't make much difference what order he presents it. Cotillard appears to be as tiny as Piaf was (the singer was only 4' 8") and she acts neurasthenic as all get out, but somehow her constantly victimized state works against our sympathetic response, particularly since the film's random structure often robs us of cause-effect connections. Sometime an inner voice threatens to burst forth: "C'mon Edie, pull up your socks...
...College Pub), you have every right to hold Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 personally responsible. That is, if you can prove that he is, indeed, Dean of the College. But Dean Gross doesn’t exactly have the same ability as a random undergraduate to shrug responsibility under Harvard’s new alcohol policy and deny having a leadership position in a social club...
...Johnston is the author of the acclaimed short fiction collection “Corpus Christi.” He has another book to be published shortly by Random House that he says deals partly with a violin prodigy who has lost his gift and partly with a single mother who is helping to raise a stranded baby whale...