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Sachem was the last straw. Or was it Kiva? My 12-year-old daughter and I had been drilling social-studies key words for more than an hour. It was 11 p.m. Our entire evening had, as usual, consisted of homework and conversations (a.k.a. nagging) about homework. She was tired and fed up. I was tired and fed up. The words wouldn't stick. They meant nothing to her. They didn't mean much to me either. After all, when have I ever used sachem in a sentence--until just...
...sandy arena out the back of Rockhampton's Great Western Hotel on this Saturday night, 45 cowboys in cocky white straw hats and cautious padded vests will lower themselves onto the back of a close-penned bull, wedge one hand under the rope around its chest, an`d wait for the ring-ward side of the pen to be pulled open. But only 11 will ride the bull, and only four will know the glory of doing it twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed...
...with its cuisine. On the upper floor in an old colonial house, soulful African music plays to a backdrop of traditional handicrafts and jewelry for sale, and de rigueur pictures of the "Lion of Judah," Emperor Haile Selassie, in his safari suit. The mesop-Ethiopian tables woven from colored straw-are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils, popcorn and coffee. The dark brew is part of the spiritual and social life in Ethiopia, and patrons can order...
...mesop - Ethiopian tables woven from colored straw - are outside under the palm trees. Soft light is diffused through red and orange velvet umbrellas, and the air is filled with an exotic mix of frankincense, mosquito coils, popcorn and coffee. The dark brew is part of the spiritual and social life in Ethiopia, and patrons can order the coffee ceremony, a half-hour ritual where the beans are ground and roasted in front of you. "We make coffee to satisfy all the senses," says manager Foster Sanga. "You can see, smell, hear, touch and taste it." But it's the food...
...China's reduction of rice supplies to the North?part of a previous effort to force Pyongyang to negotiate over its nuclear-weapons program?contributed to a devastating famine. "The famine was the fault of North Korean mismanagement, of course, but it's clear that Chinese actions were the straw that broke the camel's back," Eberstadt says. If China halted aid today, "Who can say whether there might not be a civil war" in the North, says Kenneth Lieberthal, an international-relations professor at the University of Michigan and a former Clinton Administration lead negotiator with North Korea...