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...myth of Tusitala has also undergone a workout. But you'd expect nothing less from the story of how one of the world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls...
Watch Torrance, Calif.’s own Samoan Assassin, junior Coesen Ngwun—a “beast of a man,” according to fellow defensive tackle and blockmate Matt McBurney—as he works in his office...
Ngwun is the Harvard football team’s strongest player, topping out at 407 pounds on the bench. And he follows in the rich tradition of American Samoan football players, an astounding number of whom have broken the professional ranks...
...where he won the college's gold medal. It's not only Lemalu's vast, rolling bass-baritone that has marked him out. "He's got an incredible stage presence and real artistry," says Glyndebourne's executive chairman Gus Christie. The singer himself attributes his confidence to his Western Samoan roots. "My people are not performers, but they are very flamboyant," he says. "They have self-belief in things which might perhaps deter others." The famous haka war ritual performed by New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team, a posturing display of aggression, is the ultimate Kiwi demonstration of confidence...
Perhaps the collegiate generation can no longer remember that the Girl Scouts were once rife with red-blooded jingoism. In this situation, the still-proud Boy Scouts would likely couch this battle in terms of America versus Samoan usurpers. But, alas, the girls have already acquiesced and sold out decades of Americana, labeled squarely with that bold term—Samoa...