Word: tanzania
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...oppressive father; he tried to force her into a marriage and she killed herself. My chemistry teacher, also a Hindu, fell in love with a Muslim woman; her family whisked her off to Pakistan and he swallowed acid in the school laboratory, dying for love. A distant relative in Tanzania was charged with hiring killers to murder her oldest son, his wife and their babies because her husband threatened to disown her favorite younger boy. The papers called her "Lady Macbeth"; she fled to Pakistan and died alone...
...with a population of 710,000 has suffered 19 coups or attempted coups, while also producing Africa's most wanted terrorist, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed - accused of masterminding the killing of 224 people as leader of the Somalia-based al-Qaeda allied group that bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. It might seem appropriate, then, at first glance, that the African Union on Tuesday responded with force to a threat by one of the islands, Anjouan, to secede. Comoran troops backed by an AU force composed of Libyan, Senegalese, Sudanese and Tanzanian soldiers invaded at dawn, under...
...Last month my wife and I traveled to Rwanda and Tanzania. When we told people where we are from, many smiled and responded, "Ah, yes, U.S. good country!" We had no idea what the locals were referring to until one of our guides mentioned Bush and all that he has done for Africa. Thank you for Geldof's article. Apparently "the great unacknowledged story of America in Africa" is less important to most of the media than what Obama and Clinton had for breakfast yesterday. Tom Reynolds, DURHAM, CONN...
...Last month my wife and I traveled to Rwanda and Tanzania. When we told people where we are from, many smiled and responded, "Ah, yes, U.S. good country!" We had no idea what the locals were referring to until one of our guides mentioned Bush and all that he has done for Africa. Thank you for Geldof's article. Apparently "the great unacknowledged story of America in Africa" is less important to most of the media than what Obama and Clinton had for breakfast yesterday. Tom Reynolds, Durham, Connecticut...
...Throw Down Your Heart.” The banjo virtuoso showed clips from the film last Thursday at the New College Theatre as part of a talk presented by the Harvard College American Music Association. The film documents Fleck’s travel to the African nations of Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali in an effort to uncover the roots of the instrument that is now regarded as quintessentially American. He eventually encountered the akontig, an instrument fashioned from a gourd with striking similarities to today’s banjo. For 30 consecutive days, Fleck met and played with...