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...that are in opposition to the country's leader. Then we can expect meaningful and healthy discussions before policies are implemented. Theophilus Quayefio Accra Much of what has gone wrong in Africa since independence owes to an institutional approach to government. When the British were decolonizing in the late 1950s, they set up representative institutions broadly modeled on those at Westminster. The assumption was that democratic institutions that worked in one context would automatically work in another. The result has been a failure. Africa has taken a number of detours from the intended democracy, most frequently into dictatorship and kleptocracy...
...something else about Katrina bound Clinton and Bush even tighter: both men had deep emotional ties to the Gulf Coast. Bush made his fortune in oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico during the 1950s, when offshore drilling was still considered risky. And it was in the now infamous New Orleans Superdome that he snared the G.O.P. nomination in 1988 and spoke of a "kinder, gentler" nation. To Clinton, New Orleans was also promised land: his mother worked at the city's Charity Hospital while he was being raised by his grandparents in Arkansas, and it was to Louisiana...
...magician of stop-motion animation brought fantasy to terrifying life. This pack of three 1950s monster films shows his no-budget brilliance: to save money, he gave the giant octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea just six arms. He destroyed D.C. in Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and created the Ymir, a sulfurous Venusian, in 20 Million Miles to Earth. All his beasties, hand-crafted and photographed one frame at a time, had the power and grandeur of the original Kong...
...will take steps to bring about change. With each movie release, the company's partner website, Participate. net, provides viewers with a way to get involved. Working in partnership with the a.c.l.u., Channel One, pbs, Salon.com and Satellite Radio, the "Report It Now" campaign (a takeoff on Murrow's 1950s cbs News program See It Now) asks viewers to report important stories ignored or overlooked by the media. The larger purpose, according to the website, is to "compel the media to get back to reporting in the public interest." For North Country, Participant joined forces with the Family Violence Prevention...
...early 1950s, LIU BINYAN was a tall, eloquent young man deeply devoted to the ideals of socialism and set for a brilliant career in the People's Republic of China. When he was purged from the Communist Party in 1957 for writing about corruption and banished to a poor mountain village, he suddenly found that there were "two diametrically opposed kinds of truth" in China. The "longings of the peasants" formed one kind, the "policies of the higher-ups" another. The rest of Liu's life?his sufferings as well as his remarkable achievements?followed from his choice to side...