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Democracy in South Africa Re "Why South Africa's Over the Rainbow" [April 20]. While the concern around a Zuma presidency is warranted, opposition parties to the ANC will fight to prevent the country sliding into chaos. South Africa is the greatest country in Africa, and is worth fighting for. S.K. Sonderup, PORT ELIZABETH, SOUTH AFRICA...
...Loans Peter Gumbel's "IMF 2.0" fully captures the sentiment and distrust of developing economies toward the IMF, and the negative impact on people's lives of corrupt and inept government officials' dealings with the IMF [April 20]. Certain governments in Africa took IMF loans on behalf of their people who then suffered the debt with neither accountability nor the hoped for development. Now the loan conditions are being relaxed, the IMF must ensure that loans do not get to corrupt governments anymore, and where they do, the loans must be accounted for with development projects and fiscal responsibility. Obinna...
There is no more powerful image of fear than a population gripped by plague. A novel flu virus exploded through Mexico last week, killing some 150, infecting hundreds more, and generating images of masked citizens and grim officials enumerating the latest toll. By April 29, the virus had spread to at least nine countries, leading health officials to raise the alert level and warn that a pandemic is imminent; the most recent influenza pandemic, in 1968, killed around a million people...
...rainy April afternoon in Harvard Yard, Jeffrey Kwong ’09 stands on the steps of Widener Library with a fellow member of Students for Israel reading names from a list of 3.3 million Holocaust victims, Yahrzeit candles glowing at his feet...
...formally launched in the fall, making over 10 million Harvard library items available electronically to users. Materials can be requested directly from the HOLLIS record, and they will be scanned and delivered to the user’s email account free of charge. A beta version was released in April...