Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns--so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.

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Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns-so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.

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When a prominent writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and eight others were hanged in 1995, western governments imposed limited sanctions and cold-shouldered Nigeria.

ECONOMIST: Nigeria does it again

"Millennial festivities would not even exist were it not for the Gregorian calendar structured around the birth of Jesus Christ, " said the writer, who pointed out that China had its own well-established dating system centuries before the Western one went into effect.

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