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...history. On the Rainbow Curtain township tour run by Grassroute Tours (www.grassroutetours.co.za), you visit District Six, once a mixed-race suburb from which all residents were forcibly removed in the 1960s. In Cape Town's harbor sits Robben Island, site of the prison turned museum where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years behind bars. The windswept island seems a lifetime removed from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants and the bohemian neighborhood of Bo Kaap, or the Metropole Hotel...
...were invited to attend classes ranging from Historical Study B-64, “The Cuban Revolution, 1956-1971: A Self-Debate,” to Math 23a, “Linear Algebra and Real Analysis I.” Matthew P. Zehnder ’11 said he spent most of his weekend showing his parents around campus. “Parents’ Weekend is great,” Zehnder said. “It’s at the point of homesickness, two months in, and seeing your parents again is a boost.” Zehnder...
...lost for a while," she tells him one morning. "No, get lost - it's not a request." Wiest passes along this command with a painted-on smile, a sing-song voice and the suggestion that only good manners keeps her from screaming; it's as if she's spent a long day conversing with four-year-olds...
...inherited the school's presidency from his father, and Richard's wife Lindsay. Among the allegations: the Roberts had remodeled their home eleven times in 14 years with university money; they bankrolled one of their daughters' $29,411 trip to the Bahamas with school funds; and Lindsay Roberts had spent the night in an O.R.U. guest-house with an underage male nine times...
...Losing Battle As more houses are dispersed through the fire zone - whether summer cabins or new McMansions - both firefighters and budgets are stretched ever more thinly. Last year the Forest Service spent a record $2.5 billion fighting wildfires that burned 9.9 million acres (4 million hectares), another record. Even though California has boosted spending on firefighting since the catastrophic blazes of 2003 - the state set aside $850 million for this year - when a megafire like this one strikes, officers on the ground quickly hit the limits of what they can do. "You're putting people between the unstoppable force...