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[from amaah] 'At least these mosquitoes don't give you malaria'

on immigrants from French-speaking African countries, who live in Montreal but come to cut brush in northern Quebec's boreal forest in the summer.

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[from amaah] Prelude to a Critique on the Production of Bombings By Means of Bombings

the fact that it started off with a breezy piece of cynical contrarianism then oversimplified massively and waffled around the most important question by talking unspecifically about unobservable factors, ought to clue you up to the likelihood that it's n

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[from amaah] Shopping For A Ghana Christmas: Matters Arising

Funny that I won't be going through this this year... It is a golden rule of travelling home ( and a fact of life) that you can never satisfy everybody's needs.

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[from amaah] 10 idees reçues Sur l'Afrique

Préjugés, clichés, lieux communs donnent une vision caricaturale du Sud-Sahara. Comment rétablir la vérité? A tonic of an essay

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[from amaah] Home Economics

The New Mathematics, Voodoo Economics, Jumbo Jitters and a Subprime Playlist. Some housing toli... Maximum prudent _ house price = $521,250 = $417,000 (maximum federally-insured mortgage) + 20% downpayment

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[from amaah] Togo searches for a turning point

"The Switzerland of Africa!" claimed his officials with enthusiasm. The businesswomen in the market got so rich they drove Mercedes, Togo's famous Nana Benz. He started having elections, but he always won. Then, after 38 years in power, he died. He had ru

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[from amaah] Robert Samuelson's Three Beliefs

Someone said that Robert Samuelson thinks three things are true, deficits are bad, there's a demographic crisis coming, and both parties share the blame for any problem. Based upon these beliefs, he's been writing the same column in one form or another fo

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