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...curtain, as when Charlotte critiques the pastiche of hotel lobbies “these days,” making her sound as if she has done and seen just about everything in this great land, until we are reminded that she doesn’t know the most basic juvenile slang...
...clothes here are by donation, since Planet Aid is part of the non-profit Humana People to People, an aid organization that runs teaching, HIV/AIDS and sustainable development programs in Africa and Central America. What you’ll find here are quirky pieces mixed in with generally modern, basic items. This is a good place to go if you want clothes that are fairly straightforward and cheaper than new ones, particularly if, as manager Kristen L. Daley says, you “aren’t interested in paying more for something from the 1950s...
...country's lackluster political class still oversees a system of corrupt and malign decision-making that has failed to meet the most basic needs of its 500,000 citizens. Trust in the public sphere is virtually nonexistent, and by almost every measure of well-being, Solomon Islanders are the region's poor relations, their natural resources sold cheaply or stolen. "It's like Solomon Islands fell down a well," says Johnson Honimae, until recently general manager of the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation and now head of the government's information unit. "We are hurt, the water...
...Intervention no longer has the stain of neocolonialism," says an Australian diplomat. The Howard government estimates it will spend $A200-300 million a year for perhaps a decade on Solomon Islands - providing basic services, security, funding aid projects and ramsi's salaries and equipment. "It's a major commitment by Australia," says a ramsi figure. "Not only in dollar terms - the Howard government has placed an enormous investment in Kemakeza personally, and his government. It's working. But if Kemakeza falls, where does that leave the reform process?" Prime Minister Kemakeza declined requests for an interview with Time...
...Batley understands that Solomon Islanders want basic services, but feels even those expectations are unrealistic. "A lot of Solomon Islanders don't make the connection between good policy and what that means for the delivery of government services and for a growing economy," he says. "The work required to return the social infrastructure and administration not only to functionality but to really being effective and efficient is an enormous challenge, and it will take years." It's a hard message to sell to a public that's been let down for so long. Batley and other ramsi officers are wary...