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South Africa: broken promises / Sickle, Alexa Van   Article
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Summary/Abstract At the tail end of an overland trip from Cairo to Cape Town in 2002, travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux – then more than 60 years old and writing his thirty-eighth book – had lunch with Professor Lee Berger, an archaeologist and paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, in a Johannesburg mall. Recalling their conversation in his book Dark Star Safari, Theroux recounts how the professor challenged him to make a threatening face. Theroux attempted his best grimace, but his failure to bare his teeth was, for Berger, a sign that humans were ‘undoubtedly a peaceful species’. According to him, the ‘paedo-morphic face’ (or child-like, rather than aggressive, features) that humans had developed showed that they were largely defined by ‘peacefulness and cooperation’ rather than conflict. ‘Warfare is symbolic,’ he concluded.
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Washington and Havana: a new course? / Sickle, Alexa van   Article
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Summary/Abstract We need to talk about Cuba.’ The date was 15 August 1974 – six days after Richard Nixon resigned as president of the United States. Testing out the waters with the new president Gerald Ford, secretary of state Henry Kissinger floated the idea of talks with Cuba, implying that Fidel Castro had reached out to the Americans.
Key Words Cuba  United States  US-Cuba Relations 
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