June 30, 2008 at 12:39 am
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American bankers handled his loot. Oil companies play by his rules. The Bush administration woos him. How the pursuit of oil is propping up the West African dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang.
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Over four decades, Russell Means has led an insurrection, posed for Andy Warhol, aspired to be an assassin and been arguably the most influential public figure in fighting racism against the American Indian. Now, in his quest to start his own country…
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If you’re wondering what Boston will look and feel like in 10 years - the shape of our skyline, the boldness of our buildings, the run of our streets - you need to know Kairos Shen.
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On June 24, 2008, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza delivered the ninth Turgut Ozal Memorial Lecture at The Washington Institute. The following is the prepared text of his remarks
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A hapless shell of a government. A nasty Islamist insurgency. A looming humanitarian disaster. Somalia is the most dangerous failed state on the planet, and even international troubleshooters are keeping their distance.
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For the first time in centuries, the region from Western China to Iran and from the Steppes of Russia to Northern India can and, this essay argues, should be viewed as an entity. Possessed of significant natural resources, and forming…
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The Oman Studies Centre was founded in Germany in 1975 as a documentation centre on Oman and the Arabian Gulf. It is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit academic institution which mainly collects information on Oman to assist and coordinate re
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June 28, 2008 at 12:39 am
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June 26, 2008 at 12:38 am
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Patterns in the cross-section of returns from stocks bought for vouchers in Mongolia’s privatization program mirror those fromdeveloped countries. Stocks in companies with high book-to-market ratios…
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WashTech/CWA is the nation’s leading union for high-tech workers, ensuring that our voices get heard and our needs are met. Today, job security, health care, retirement plans, offshore outsourcing and visas are on our minds more than ever. From Silicon Va
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The FSVC builds strong financial systems that enable developing and emerging market countries to realize economic opportunities and their citizens to achieve a better quality of life.
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The closing paragraphs are famous, but few have read Mark Twain’s complete article.
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June 24, 2008 at 12:38 am
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The next technology boom may well be based on alternative energy, says Geoffrey Carr (interviewed here). But which sort to back?
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A recent study examining privatization results in four Sub-Saharan African countries yielded two broad conclusions: First, privatization is not easy to do, and getting it right can be tough in low-income countries. Second, if privatization is done…
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June 23, 2008 at 12:37 am
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Hear about the hidden gems of the Spanish master, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, in the city where he lived and worked from Janis Tomlinson, a Goya scholar and the director of University Museums at the University of Delaware.
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Pope Benedict XVI leads a church that is more Hispanic and less centered in the Northeast than it was in the late 1960s.
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Failure to plan for predictable problems has turned China’s coming-out party into an embarrassment.
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Benjamin Barber
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Nearly seven years after 9/11, Americans may feel like safe is normal again. But, to the counterterrorism experts who scour the nation’s airspace, safety is hard-earned every minute of every day
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Rafid Ahmed Alwan talks publicly for the first time. Charges that he fabricated intelligence that helped lead to war in Iraq are themselves fiction, he insists.
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June 22, 2008 at 12:36 am
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Quéplaya.es es un sitio web donde podrás ver toda la información de la gran mayoría de playas de España. Tamaño de las playas, datos meteorológicos, temperatura del agua, composición del piso, servicios…
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Produced by disgruntled Comcast employees (contains sound).
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Management speak - don’t you just hate it? Emphatically yes, judging by readers’ responses to writer Lucy Kellaway’s campaign against office jargon. Here, we list 50 of the best worst examples.
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June 21, 2008 at 12:37 am
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