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Ghana Must Go

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Dr Wei started also, his deep, bossed gong laugh. "I say this to say that I admire the culture, your culture, its respect for education above all. Every African man I have ever encountered in an academic setting excelled, barring none. I haven't met a single lazy African student, or a fat one for that matter, in 40 years here. I know it sounds crazy, we laugh, but believe me. I teach undergraduates. I see it every day. African immigrants are the future of the academy. And the Indians." He paused here to finish his tea.

White Dog Fell From the Sky

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The hearse pulled onto a scrubby track, traveled several hundred feet, and stopped. The passenger door opened, followed by the driver’s door. Two men stepped out. They walked to the rear door, and to- gether the men slid out a coffin and laid it carefully on the ground. They returned to the car, struggled with something inside, and dragged out a limp body. It was so covered with road dust, its face was gone.

The Rosie Project

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Chapter One 
 
I may have found a solution to the Wife Problem. As with so
many scientific c breakthroughs, the answer was obvious in
retrospect. But had it not been for a series of unscheduled
events, it is unlikely I would have discovered it.
The sequence was initiated by Gene insisting I give a lecture
on Asperger’s syndrome that he had previously agreed
to deliver himself. The timing was extremely annoying. The

Never Let Go

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The intrusion had been coated with a dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic veneer. Now that the sun was up it seemed as though it had never happened at all, as if the entire episode had been imagined. Harlan, in particular, was having trouble sorting through and accepting what the elderly man had told him. It was not just that his life had been threatened when he was a child and that his family had, in fact, made the connection that he thought they had missed, it was the suggestion that there was a flaw in his theory. An oversight that, potentially, could cost them dearly.

The Cutting Room

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They came at dusk, three of them knocking at the front door. She first saw them through the glass panel in the wooden door. The mosaic of coloured glass was cracked, missing a thin finger of green glass. The wind had banged the door shut too many times and one flat hand pressing against the pane would cause the glass to fall inwards. The lead holding the glass together was weak and Lucinda had been meaning these last months to get it repaired. And now she stood, only fragile glass between her and three unknown men. 

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