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* LEFT: Ghanaian economist George Ayittey talked about "Hippos" (older-generation, slow-thinking) versus "Cheetahs" ( "a new breed of Africans").
Boing Boing 2007
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That was that "Hippos" was a disappointment literarily, it shouldn't be marketed as a long-lost masterpiece-which, of course, the temptation was there for agents and publishers to try to do that-and ideally it should be presented with a bunch of scholarly apparatus.
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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One of the important things about "Hippos": This was formative for Burroughs.
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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In the end, talking with my editor at grove at Grove, Jamison Stoltz, I came to see that really it should just be the "Hippos" text by itself. ...
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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That was that "Hippos" was a disappointment literarily, it shouldn't be marketed as a long-lost masterpiece-which, of course, the temptation was there for agents and publishers to try to do that-and ideally it should be presented with a bunch of scholarly apparatus.
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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One of the important things about "Hippos": This was formative for Burroughs.
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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In the end, talking with my editor at grove at Grove, Jamison Stoltz, I came to see that really it should just be the "Hippos" text by itself. ...
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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One of the important things about "Hippos": This was formative for Burroughs.
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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In the end, talking with my editor at grove at Grove, Jamison Stoltz, I came to see that really it should just be the "Hippos" text by itself. ...
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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In the end, talking with my editor at grove at Grove, Jamison Stoltz, I came to see that really it should just be the "Hippos" text by itself. ...
Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism 2009
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