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...those not content to celebrate the year 2000 from just one exotic location, Harvard University Museum of Cultural and Natural History is offering a "Around the World Millennium Expedition"--planning to whisk its voyagers from Easter Island to Western Samoa and on to Timbuktu, Mali with New Guinea and Tanzania in between...
Encarta Africana features video tours of important sites in black culture, including Timbuktu and Harlem...
Uncovering the discs' multimedia treasures is the most fun. Brief movies on historic sites in Africa tell of the medieval trading city Timbuktu (in what is now Mali) and the underground churches hewn from volcanic rock in Ethiopia's 12th century Christian empire Lalibela. Choice video clips, such as those of the Harlem Globetrotters' comic basketball team and singer Bessie Smith, reveal what words could only suggest...
...been to Timbuktu or thereabouts for the greater part of the last year, perhaps you managed to miss the headline-inducing fling of Mr. Prez and little Miss Monica. But if you've been in the vicinity of an outlet of the American press it would be virtually impossible to have missed the mind-numbing blitz of opinions and details of the sexual happening...
...argue over the relative quality of rooms, the availability of quality television programming, and the scholastic importance of centipedes until next year's lottery rolls around, but in the final analysis only one thing is clear: the Quad is extremely far away. The proverbial Timbuktu is also far away and the Quad is in it. FRANK E. PACHECO '99 March...