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...years before it achieves a solid economic footing. In the meantime, the help of friends is vital. Australia's parliamentary secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Bruce Billson, says Nauru's largest neighbor welcomes the budget measures and is optimistic that the Scotty government will abandon the financial recklessness of the past: "There has never been such a sense of shared purpose." An Australian finance team is in Nauru helping to audit its messy dealings, while two Australian Federal Police members have arrived to assist the local force. The presidential penthouse in Melbourne's business district is gone, and consulate...
...changes have not led to open revolt by vested interests, although it appears politicians have been persuaded to abandon a useful forestry reform bill. Batley has not yet run into the sort of stalemate that would force ramsi to attach more stringent conditions to its program - or require heavy prodding from Canberra. While ramsi officials labor the point that the intervention is a regional response, there's little doubt in anyone's mind that this is Australia's show. Invited in or not, Canberra could not have a failed state on its doorstep: humanitarian concerns aside, lawlessness and anarchy...
...culture but also from de Kooning's personal supply of awe and anger. As Stevens and Swan make clear, throughout his life his dealings with women were heedless and narcissistic. Though he never divorced his wife Elaine--like him a painter and heavy drinker who slept around with abandon--he fathered a child by another woman, set up the occasional household with still others and carried on countless affairs. At one point he taught each of his girlfriends to ring his studio doorbell in a different way so he could tell which one was coming...
Unlike his forebears, Ames has barely left the town of Gilead, feeling that to do so would be to abandon the hope that has gone into its creation as a bulwark against slavery. "There must have been a hundred little towns like it," writes Robinson, "set up in the heat of an old urgency that is all forgotten now, and their littleness and their shabbiness, which was the measure of the courage and passion that went into the making of them, now just look awkward and provincial and ridiculous...
Though hesitant to abandon the perimeter in his first three collegiate contests, the West Islip, N.Y., native has thrown himself headlong into the mix ever since. More forcefully asserting himself on the power play—both of his goals against the Eagles and two of his assists so far this year have come with a man advantage—Pelle has consistently positioned himself to reap the benefits of the playmaking abilities of seniors Tom Cavanagh and Brendan Bernakevitch...