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Beside a dusty, rural road in the eastern Transvaal, six families of black farmers gathered two weeks ago under a thorn tree to celebrate their return to their ancestral lands. A hand-lettered cardboard sign hanging on a frayed tent nearby read Ra Boile Gae in Pedi, a language spoken in the north of the country, and Home Sweet Home in English. Pedis are the largest of the northern Sotho groups, and these jubilant returnees were members of a community that had lived and farmed there in Doornkop for more than 70 years. They tilled the fertile soil and earned...
...arrangements, predicts they will number 20,000 by early next year. He also expects the settlement to have electricity by then. "You can't believe what it was like to come home," says Kalushi, a librarian at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. "When we stood under the thorn trees we could hear the bush singing. What a Christmas Day we are going to have...
Disappointing indeed. The Bears have been a thorn in the Crimson's side all season. Although the two teams are tied for fourth in Ivy League, Harvard went into the weekend 0-2 on the season against Brown, losing 3-1, on September 24, and 3-2 on October...
...Crimson didn't see it that way. The squad came into the meet with its guns blazing. One, the meet promised the possibility of setting a good mood for tournament season. And two, it was a chance to get back at a consistent thorn in Harvard's side the past few seasons: UMass-Amherst, the 11th-ranked team in the country, and one of the best teams in the east...
...Cuba would spell disaster for American security. The United States's hard-line policy grew even harder, faithfully perpetuated by a succession of presidents, both Democrats and Republicans. Through Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, through the Vietnam War, Woodstock, disco, and Reaganomics, Castro still ruled in Havana, a perennial thorn in the side of the United States despite the crushing weight of the trade embargo...