Matt Damon saves South Africa

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As you may have figured out my now (from my earlier post), I don’t particularly like the idea behind “Invictus.” I’ve seen it to and had to prevent myself from walking out of the theater a few times for its historical inaccuracies, banal “rainbow” politics, and reducing South Africa’s political transition to being dependent on […]

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“INVICTUS”: THAT’S NOT RUGBY

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WEEKEND LINKS: STEPHEN AMOS etc

Stephen K Amos’ brilliant mock-Nigerian routine is a good way to introduce a bunch of links–new, as well as ones that have piled up in my bookmarks folder:

WHEN RUGBY SHOOK THE WORLD

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. “Foreign Policy,”a magazine whose blog loves lists, recently published one on “The Top Ten Sporting Events That Shook the World.” Included among the list, at number 6, was the South African national rugby team’s 1995 World Cup win:

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