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...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 detective eventually airs...
...empiricism to its logical extreme.” The question is asked, “Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?” Our hero replies by opening his essay with, “David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it.” This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really...
...afternoon 20 years ago, my husband walked into our living room and said, "I'm Scottish, so I think we should play golf." I looked at him like he was from Mars, but we went out, and it hooked me like a drug...
...twosome set out to build their own castle in Middlefield, Mass., a quiet, rural community in the Berkshire Mountains that has a few well-hidden, elegant homes. Kim, 49, helped design the structure and is serving as general contractor for the 11,000-sq.-ft., three-story Scottish-style castle made of gray, rough-cut stone and situated on 75 acres...
...learned to harmonize when he was a boy singing hymns with his family, and he does a lot of singing on the show. Butch Thompson, who plays clarinet and barroom piano, and Peter Ostroushko, who plays fiddle, guitar and mandolin, are regulars on the show, and Atkins, Emmylou Harris, Scottish Folk Singer Jean Redpath, Fiddler Johnny Gimble and a great many others are irregulars. Keillor's tastes are dizzyingly eclectic, though he cherishes what he calls "an irrational distaste for banjos and a normal dislike of operatic sopranos...