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  • If the term Mau Mau sounds familiar, it might be because earlier this year, deceptively nice-seeming conservative whack-job and potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed that Barack Obama had been raised in Kenya, his grandfather was involved in the Mau Mau Uprising, and that because of this, Obama holds an anti-American dislike of the British.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jonathan Kim 2011

  • Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away.

    Nation by Terry Pratchett: Book summary 2010

  • Tom Wolfe explained the inner economic logic of an earlier social work counseling fad in Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers:

    “In his Equal Employment Opportunity office at Police Headquarters” 2008

  • Tom Wolfe explained the inner economic logic of an earlier social work counseling fad in Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers:

    Alan Greenspan in 2005; ACORN and Credit Counselling 2008

  • Tom Wolfe explained the inner economic logic of an earlier social work counseling fad in Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers:

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Alan Greenspan in 2005; ACORN and Credit Counselling 2008

  • Picked after an extensive competition that produced four equally strong proposals, the winning design by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau is more of a manifesto than a physical design.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Picked after an extensive competition that produced four equally strong proposals, the winning design by Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau is more of a manifesto than a physical design.

    Parc Downsview Park 2005

  • If the term Mau Mau sounds familiar, it might be because earlier this year, deceptively nice-seeming conservative whack-job and potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee claimed that Barack Obama had been raised in Kenya, his grandfather was involved in the Mau Mau Uprising, and that because of this, Obama holds an anti-American dislike of the British.

    Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: The First Grader -- Reading, Writing and Rebellion Jonathan Kim 2011

  • It was a questionable time to be traveling to Kenya, largely due to the independence movement, whose guerilla fighters, called the Mau Mau, were hiding in forest encampments all over the country, from which they staged their raids.

    One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

  • Steel spent his teenage years at the Prince of Wales school in colonial Nairobi, Kenya--in the middle of the so-called Mau Mau rebellion--where his father was head of the Church of Scotland.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

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