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...give way. Since the real impact of the austerity will not begin to be felt for months, Papandreou will probably win this round. Last week he was taking no chances. Diverting attention from domestic troubles, he charged that U.S. jets from the Sixth Fleet had violated Greek airspace. SOLOMON ISLANDS They Had the Wings of an Angel...
Most of the 78 inmates at Rove Prison in Honiara (pop. 20,000), capital of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, were busy at their usual tasks, which include fashioning water jugs out of beer bottles for sale in local markets. To the inmates' astonishment, two senior prison officers suddenly opened the prison's steel and barbed-wire gates and, along with the 40 guards on duty, simply walked away. The two officers and other members of the staff had complained that their authority was being undermined by prisoners' complaints and a successful court action for assault brought...
...have been thinking, no great man ever was really happy." And the author is an excellent guide through the winding complexities of Ethiopian culture, its ancient Coptic Christian religion and its legendary past (the first Emperor, Menelik I, was purported to be the son of the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba...
Lithgow is best known for his role as extraterrestrial-in-disguise Dr. Dick Solomon on NBC’s late-1990s sitcom “3rd Rock From the Sun,” But the 59-year-old actor has also performed in over 30 major motion pictures, received four Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe, appeared in countless stage productions, and won two Tony Awards...
After receiving his doctorate, he embarked on research expeditions through New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, where he was able to prove what Darwin did not—that new species arise from the geographical isolation of populations. This led to his definition of species as “an interbreeding population that cannot breed with other groups,” the press release said...