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...know, a very strange way to spend a week. At 5 a.m. in Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport, after traveling 35 hours to get here, I'm not really sure whether I'm meant to be boarding flight 9W1609 to the Himalayan town of Leh or flight 9W609 to Leh, 50 minutes earlier. The airport hotel in Delhi somehow begins to bleed into the transit hotel in Singapore. The Australian dollars I was using on Monday have become American dollars and then Singapore dollars, losing a little in value with each exchange. Winter has become summer has become what...
...north, with some white commentators advising selling up and leaving should he take power. In a widely distributed column, white South African Rian Malan detailed the reasons why he thought Zuma would be President one day, then asked if anyone wanted to buy his house in Cape Town. When Zuma was sacked, the left-leaning weekly Mail & Guardian hailed his dismissal and described the battle between Zuma and his opponents as one "between yesterday and tomorrow." The business community is more muted, but the rand falls whenever Zuma's star rises and, asked what he makes of Zuma's economic...
...brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for most of his 27 years in jail. After his release, Zuma helped organize underground resistance to apartheid. In 1975, he fled South Africa for Swaziland, Mozambique and Zambia - eventually becoming the ANC's intelligence chief...
...late autumn, 1967, British government officials huddled in a small map room in London. They put a single colored pin on the town of Nantmawr, in Western England, where a vet had uncovered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in pigs. Then they waited. Within days, the colored pinheads began spreading over the country like an ulcerated rash...
...based on David Bailey) is a magazine photographer on top of the fashion world. He speeds through London in his Rolls convertible, communicating with business associates on his dashboard two-way radio. Larking about like a fifth Beatle, he's got a casual swagger that says, This is my town. So does his brutal way with the anorexic goddesses who pose for him. In a shoot with the model Verushka, he shouts insults, whispers endearments, straddles her like a rough lover with his camera clicking away at her simulated passion, then immediately stops and walks away when...