Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Westerners tend to lump all of them, from Angola to Zimbabwe into one cultural mass. African students say they sometimes face blatant ignorance of their home countries and Africa as a whole. Dorkus K. Mamboleo '91 says a classmate asked her which part of the United States had a town called Kenya. And Ndiaye says fellow students have asked him, "Do you live in a hut?" and "Do your cousins look like the people on TV from Ethiopia...
...same people who congregate around the Snake Woman's booth as soon as they step inside the carnival pick up the daily newspaper and flip eagerly to the political pages. Politics is the best peep show in town. (Right, Douglas-pass-the-bong-Ginsberg...
...only Black person in the Norwegian town inwhich she stayed, Michel said some local residentscut off samples of her hair to examine whileothers tried to rub off the darkness of her skin...
After Friday night's shootout, the Crimson will have to rest up for the next night, as Yale comes riding into town...
Mylroie first became interested in studying Middle Eastern politics almost by coincidence. She grew up in a small town outside Chicago and received her B.A. in political theory from Cornell. She soon shied away from the field because "to do political theory you have to be brilliant to say something new in a discussion that's centuries, if not millenia old," says Mylroie. "I wanted to study the real world...