Mr Mugabe told the state-owned Herald newspaper in Zimbabwe that nothing came out of his talks with Mr Carson - his first meeting with a US government official for many years.
"You would not speak to an idiot of that nature," he said. "I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do and what not to do."
Mr Mugabe pointed out that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) supported the unity government.
"We have the whole of SADC working with us, and you have the likes of little fellows like Carson, you see, wanting to say: 'You do this, you do that.'
"Who is he?
"I hope he was not speaking for Obama. I told him he was a shame, a great shame, being an African American."
-BBC
Carson, the little fellow, is US assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
And we know what Mugabe is- monster is not the word.
Here in India, what with girls studying better than boys and finding jobs that pay more and looking for grooms of a higher status, marriage is a game that is souring on us. Happily, the Japanese are in the same boat.
"I was lucky to come across the book," says the 37-year old, unmarried Mr. Honda.
The book is the best-seller "Konkatsu Jidai," or "The Era of Marriage Hunting." In it, sociologist Masahiro Yamada and journalist Tohko Shirakawa use the term -- a play on the Japanese words for "marriage" and "activity" -- that has become a national rage.
The tome has sold 170,000 copies since it was released by Tokyo publisher Discover21 in early 2008. The authors urge young singles to actively seek a spouse: Just sitting back and waiting for the right person to come along isn't enough.
-The Wall Street Journal
Happy Konkatsuing- that is the word we were looking for.
By the way, you could more easily learn to find your way through heavy traffic like bats and dolphins do- earlier than what it takes to find the right girl:
With just a few weeks of training, you can learn to “see” objects in the dark using echolocation the same way dolphins and bats do.
Ordinary people with no special skills can use tongue clicks to visualize objects by listening to the way sound echoes off their surroundings, according to acoustic experts at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain.
“Two hours per day for a couple of weeks are enough to distinguish whether you have an object in front of you,” Juan Antonio Martinez said in a press release. “Within another couple weeks you can tell the difference between trees and pavement.”
-Wired
Echolocation is the word:
“The almost ideal sound is the ‘palate click,’” said Martinez in a press release, “a click made by placing the tip of the tongue on the palate, just behind the teeth, and moving it quickly backwards.” The palate click is better than other sounds, because it can be made in a uniform way, works at a lower intensity, and doesn’t get drowned out by ambient noise.
Again, this works better for you in finding your way about the town than into a girl's heart- do it in the bus-stand at a girl, you are certain to get drowned by ambient noise of the angry public.
And finally, the geeks of Truro. In Truro, zoning measurse need a two-thirds vote to pass. There are 206 votes in all.
Voters narrowly approved one of four zoning amendments late Tuesday night at the annual town meeting. But town officials were still looking at the exact vote count on that article yesterday.
In a vote of 136 to 70, voters passed a new time limit on how quickly a cottage colony, cabin colony, motel or hotel can be converted to condominiums.
-Cape Cod Times
But did the amendment get the two-third vote? .66 multiplied by 206 means 136 is two-third of 206, so it is alright. But if you do the calculation with .6666 — a more accurate version of two-thirds — the amendment needs 137 votes, one more than what it got.
Can anyone clarify this?
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