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...should encourage this. It is time for Africa to peacefully reinvent its present geopolitical landscape and find one that the people can live with and use to advance into civilized modernity. The world is getting tired of, and bogged down by, Africa's problems. Wake up, Africa, and smell the coffee! Benjamin Omovie Cardiff Quotas for Castes Re "Battle of the castes" [June 5]: The Indian government's decision to reserve 27% of university seats for lower-caste groups that are officially known as Other Backward Classes has raised some protests, giving the impression of a countrywide controversy...
...Beijing in 2008. Dulwich has plans for India, too. The trend has caught on: Shrewsbury School has a three-year-old affiliate in Bangkok, and a Dubai offshoot of Repton will open for business in 2007. Given British schools' success overseas, can a private education by any other name smell as sweet? In Gamagori, Japan, Kaiyo Academy, backed by a group of high-ranking businessmen hoping to revamp Japanese academic standards, has tried to shake off the name minted by the local media, "Eton of Japan." Yet it may be the most Etonian of Japan's many British-inspired schools...
...most surprising thing about Hannah is that, for a woman who's been sleeping in a tree for almost two weeks, she doesn't smell. She attributes part of that to the flowers and herbs in the Aztec ceremony, but also because she takes a jury-rigged cold shower in the corn fields every few days. The one eventuality I am certain of in all of this is that we are less than a year away from a Daryl Hannah reality show...
...banana bag, from the concealment of the bananas in a package as camouflage to a brief “water-being-poured-down-our-door” episode, and the much-maligned campaign, in which the rotten-banana-smeared cardboard left under my bed failed to produce the pungent smell required for the attack to be effective...
...horse--now housed in a 13-ft. by 11-ft. stall at the University of Pennsylvania's George D. Widener Hospital for Large Animals--has received a flood of cards he can't read, endless baskets of fruit he won't finish, and flowers he may or may not smell. Tens of thousands of dollars and untold hours of effort will be spent on his care, all for an animal that--his potential $30 million in breeding fees notwithstanding--was already insured up to his velvety ears...