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Having produced extraordinary works by the likes of Peter Godwin (Mukiwa), Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe's troubles seem to prove that you need to suffer for your art. But those authors are white, and Zimbabwe is a country of millions of blacks, whose troubles have undoubtedly been worse. So do we really need another memoir by a white Zimbabwean...
DeLay's motives seem less obvious. Since leaving Congress in June 2006, he's been running a political consultancy. Did someone counsel him that the path to elder statesmanship is best taken at a waltz? DeLay says he simply discussed the plan with his wife and daughter, both fans of the show, who urged him to go for it. "They said, 'Sure, why not? Let's do it.' " His only wider aim in participating, he insists, is to win. "I'm surprised people consider it unusual that a former politician would be on a dancing show," he says. "Politics...
That experience didn't seem to sour DeLay, who has begun his DWTS campaign with such vigor, you'd think the cast was stocked with Democrats instead of subaltern celebrities with at least a decade on him. Like fellow Season 9 contestants TV actress Melissa Joan Hart and model turned merchandise mogul Kathy Ireland, he has a Twitter feed about his progress. (So far he has 1,845 followers, more than competitor Ashley Hamilton's 240 but fewer than Osbourne's 120,000.) "Headed to the studio for my first rehearsal and to meet my partner. Hoping...
...President Obama’s speech was roughly equivalent to that of former President George H.W. Bush in 1991. Both speeches focused on themes of personal responsibility and controlling one’s own destiny. Few people seem to remember, however, that immediately after President Bush’s speech was given, a Democrat-controlled Congress ordered a General Accounting Office investigation, convened hearings, and summoned senior Bush officials to Capitol Hill to testify...
Though most of them have yet to open up, Pfoho residents seem to like their wall...