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World Cup Report: Poverty and Promise in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG—The new South Africa is a bountiful land, a country of extremes. Affluence lives next to poverty. I see this on my first visit. My suburban accommodations are top-class: high walls, electrical fences, remote-controlled metal gates, panic buttons, security guards and manicured lawns. Less than five minutes away sits a shantytown. The nearest sign says…
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Déjà Vu All Over Again: Secession Fever
The triumphant e-mail arrived in my in-box a week or two ago. It announced a re-enactment of the Florida Secession Convention on Jan. 8, 2011, in the old State Capitol building, where the original event took place 150 years before. “This will be an early event of the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States…
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