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...United Nations ages ago, before it was even fashionable," said the South African singer Yvonne Chaka Chaka of Miriam Makeba, who died Nov. 10 at 76. The first African woman to win a Grammy, Makeba, known affectionately as "Mama Africa," traveled to New York City in 1963. She appeared before the U.N.'s special committee on apartheid to plead for intervention in South Africa. Her nation repaid Makeba by exiling her until 1990, when President Nelson Mandela personally asked her to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miriam Makeba | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...pages of 2666 are divided into five parts. The first concerns four literary critics--three men and a woman, all friends, all Europeans, all authorities on a mysterious German novelist named Archimboldi, whom none of them have ever met. Eventually they get a tip that Archimboldi has been seen in a backwater town in northern Mexico called Santa Teresa. But by the time they get there, the trail has gone cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Broken Book | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Even if Obama had not won, I would still have done the same.' PAMELA ADHIAMBO, a Kenyan woman who named her newborn twins Barack and Michelle. More than half the babies born at Kenya's Kisumu Hospital on Nov. 5 were named after the President-elect or his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

BEYONCE wants to play Wonder Woman. Jay-Z to shell out for invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...recent novel covers seem to evoke a certain aura of Upper East Side teen girl-dom, almost as if to say, “Spotted: a novel you might enjoy!” WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED by Judy Blundell A delicate, raven-haired young woman applies lipstick as she peers fearfully into the darkness that surrounds her. What could threaten such an innocent-looking girl? A past lover? A crazed suitor? A malicious rumor? Speaking of which, she seems to bear a passing resemblance to another slender brunette—I believe they call...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: By Its Cover: Judy Blundell, T.C. Boyle, David Ebershoff | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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