New links:

One of this country's most acclaimed preachers, Peter J. Gomes is the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and minister of the Memorial Church at Harvard for twenty-five years.

"Oh, the best advice is don't start at the beginning because you'll never make it not only to the end, you'll never make it to the first third of the thing. The Bible is not a book to be read like trying to tunnel under the English Channel from Dover to Calle. You won't get there.

"My advice has always been start with an accessible book and I suggest start with the psalms. Now people will say, oh, but the psalms are so pretty and musical, shouldn't I take something stronger? If you read the psalms, read them all, and read them at a pretty intense clip--don't spend all year doing it, do it over the course of a couple of weeks--you will find in those 150 psalms such an acute range of human experience you'll think has been written by your therapist, the point where it has anger, it has joy, it has exaltation, it has that--that psalm that Jesus uses on the cross in his moment of utter despair, "My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?" It has that wonderful pastoral sound, the 23rd psalm. It has in psalm 73 the great frustration that we all feel, why do the wicked prosper, and why do I, a virtuous man, get shoved about hither and yon? That's all in there."

(Real Audio of above talk)

"Officials yesterday kicked off plans for a trade mission to the World Fair in Lisbon, Portugal, with a plea for New Bedford and Fall River businesses to join the trip. It is planned for mid-July."

• em Portugues
• en Francais

© Fred Kfoury III

"Congratulations to Anselmo "Jair" Ribeiro on his first game for the Revolution !!!! You make us Capeverdeans very proud.We hope to see more CV soccer "football" players to make it to the majors. In the end the hard work pays off. Jair nu fikabu mutu gratu pa kel grandi golo, nu ta pidi Deus pa dabu forc,a i saudi pa bu kontinua ta fura redi. Good luck and keep on destroying those nets." - C.Danilo Gomes i familia

• Grandmother of Soul
• Cesaria Evora Cabo Verde (Nonesuch)
• Divas Deluxe: Cesaria Evora & Marisa Monte (from Utne Online)
• Antoninho Travadinha The Violin of Cape Verde (Buda Records / France)

Conceived for performance during the Expo-98 World's Fair in Lisbon.

• from WeatherPost
• from The Weather Underground

- (The majority of the 300,000 people of Cape Verdean descent in America live in the Southeastern part of New England, with New Bedford, Massachusetts being the traditional heart of Cape Verdean America.)

- (..if you'd like to know why they call it Buzzards Bay, click here. Use Explorer browser if you don't hear bird sounds.)

Mystery! The mystery of a baobab tree on the island of Santiago! (Could someone investigate this and send us a report?)

"... The African political landscape has already changed markedly in the post-cold war and post- one party eras. Africa is no longer perceived as a pariah by the rest of the world. African leaders are ready to do business with America and the rest of the world but on terms that are just and fair, for many believe the world economic order is skewed against them. If President Clinton's historic visit is to herald the dawn of a new renaissance as he put it, then time is ripe for a new and more just world economic order that could ameliorate suffering, particularly in Africa.The current economic regime perpetuates the slave-master relationship and the dependency syndrome, and consigns the world's poor to the garbage heap." - The Times of Zambia (Mar. 24, 1998)

"Visiting a Ugandan primary school with dirt-floor classrooms, President Clinton on Tuesday pledged $120 million in aid for African schools to train more teachers and to connect African children to the Internet."