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...AFRICA AID $60 billion Amount that leaders at the recent G-8 summit said they would donate to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in Africa $30 billion Amount of that aid that had already been promised by the U.S.; critics complain that little new money was pledged at the meeting...
...office in Nashville saved my skin. When reprimanded for the umpteenth time by my wife that I should get my home office in order, I triumphantly waved the article and picture under her nose. For once, she was at a loss for words. Piet J. Kruger, Somerset West, South Africa...
...means the world. Storr's Biennale puts a heavy emphasis on artists from non-Western nations. At the Arsenale he devotes one large exhibition space to Turkey, which had never before taken part in the Biennale, and another to work from all across Africa. It was also on Storr's recommendation that the Biennale's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement was presented on opening day to Malick Sidibé, a photographer from Mali whose wonderful studio portraits and pictures of people getting ready for a night on the town combine a fine eye with a very at-ease sense...
...most people will be struck by, at least in the exhibition's first half, is the heavy presence of art, a great deal of it photography, that's politically engaged. This is a show in good measure about a world in a state of emergency - in the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and countless borders - an emergency that is in some ways a consequence of modernity, and in other ways a consequence of our failure to be modern enough...
...best decisions Bush made was to resist the calls to put all of the $2.5 billion in AIDS support into the international fund," says Richard Holbrooke. "It was important that the recipients know the medicine was coming directly from the United States. It has helped our reputation throughout Africa." The next President will have to understand that there are tremendous advantages to be gained from benign unilateralism...