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Mugezi's uncanny omniscience takes some getting used to, but the effort is worth making. Isegawa's method of portraying a broad swath of national history through the wise eyes of a young observer has its precedent in such reality-bending epics as Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Mugezi and all the members of his extended family play out, in microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply...
That may be why there is one thing you won't find anywhere in Shaq's 15,000-sq.-ft. mansion high above Hollywood, nor in the secret apartment he sometimes escapes to along a sugary swath of beach just south of Los Angeles: a trophy. "My dad never [displayed] any trophies," says O'Neal. "Neither do I. I don't want to look like I'm satisfied." It's all about the team for him now. It's all about winning. Someday soon, though, if the Big Aristotle successfully completes his playoff drive, he just may want to clear...
...Mahoney site is bordered by Memorial Drive, Acron Street, Banks Street and Western Avenue, and is thought to be the last swath of undeveloped Harvard land this side of the river...
...there be any physical activity not yet annexed by the gym and footwear folk and marketed as the newest fitness craze? At least one--skipping down the street. Since founding iskip a year ago in San Francisco, Kim Corbin has uncovered a hidden swath of skippers, mostly adults. So far, 14 cities have clubs run by head skippers, and group skips are coordinated through a website, iskip.com Upcoming events include a tax-day skip in Seattle on April 15 and a skip in New York City's Central Park in May. Corbin hopes to skip across the country to (where...
...built in the 1880s as part of a rail empire connecting commercial outposts and mining camps, cuts a meandering 64-mile-long swath through frontier history along the mountainous border between Colorado and New Mexico. From Memorial Day weekend to mid-October, steam-driven locomotives, restored to mint condition and fired by tons of hand-stoked coal, maneuver around bends and across streambeds and pant up grades as steep as 4% on a track measuring just 36 in. between the rails...