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...hair, brown eyes, and loves smarties! Step in line! Better get some highlights to go with that Homer—this semester the Signet requires put-ups to include headshots with their applications. And here we were thinking we got cut because we thought Derrida was the capital of Rhodesia. Of the 15 “supporters” listed on Hadfield-Goldenberg’s site (thenewuc.com), at least 7 are either in the Fox or closely affiliated (like by blood). Fox Club for UC President! As lame as the alcohol restrictions were, the majority of first-time boozehounds...
...Harvard classmates and went to Washington, eventually joining the staff of Michigan Congressman Charles Diggs. TransAfrica began in 1977, an outgrowth of Robinson's earlier work with the Congressional Black Caucus in organizing opposition to the Ford Administration's benign policies toward white rule in what was then Rhodesia. Money, most of it contributed by prominent blacks, was hard to raise. Recalls Robinson: "We came up with between $15,000 and $20,000, so we didn't know if we'd be in operation for more than a month...
...helped rally the world ("Africans a liberate Zimbabwe/ Every man got a right/ To decide his own destiny") but Mugabe would have preferred the squeaky-clean Brit Cliff Richard. For once he was overruled, and the reggae star spread a message of hope that the racial strife of Rhodesia would give way to color-blind harmony. The message was heard even in faraway America, where a young reporter named Andrew Meldrum quit his job, sold his car and bought a plane ticket to be part of this great experiment. It didn't take Meldrum long to fall in love with...
Cupboard finds Ramotswe on the case of a successful businesswoman who wants to know whether her suitors are after her for love or money. As in all the other books, McCall Smith draws heavily on his happy childhood years in what was then Rhodesia. He praises the "quiet decency" of Botswana, which lies just southwest of Zimbabwe and which McCall Smith, whose day job is teaching medical law at the University of Edinburgh, got to know while helping set up the law school in Gaborone in the early '80s. "In Botswana, even in the small transactions of life, people...
...Rhodesia plane carrying 52 passengers and four crew members was shot down by guerrillas with a shoulder-fired missile. A few months later, the missile-toting guerrillas fired on another Air Rhodesia flight, killing all 59 people on board. Scary stuff, but there have been few instances since then of such a weapon firing on and downing a commercial airliner. In the past 18 months, alQaeda has twice tried to down planes with shoulder-fired missiles; both times they missed. It turns out that shoulder-fired missiles, while compact enough to fit in a duffel bag, are not particularly reliable...