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...boogie down with the president, said she was impressed with his dancing prowess. “He exceeded my expectations,” she said. “He’s a natural.” When Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” blared over the speakers, Nicole J. Bass ’09 locked hands with the former treasury secretary for a slow dance. “It was the thrill of my life,” she said. “He?...
...Humala enjoys a more telling poll figure: 58% of those in the survey like the fact that he doesn't belong to one of Peru's traditional and often notoriously corrupt political parties. Corruption is the hottest button for Latin voters, and it is biting pols to the left as well, especially Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, whose re-election prospects next October look dimmer with his party mired in a campaign-finance scandal. Latin American political experts say Bush should focus on rewarding clean government rather than raising the ideological temperature. His recent selection of Thomas...
...needs strong institutions - parliament, the judicial system and the press - to hold leaders in check. African voters must therefore choose good leaders on the basis of competence, not tribal lines, religion or other factors. I'm looking forward to an Africa in which the majority of members of parliament belong to parties 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...
...Illarionov: Thank you for having noticed this. Indeed, this is important. What we witness is a case of corporations that have the status of state-owned, and indeed their stock belong to the state. But the way they operate has quite little in common with the state interests. Quite to the contrary, they do act against the state interests. Take the case of Rosneft (the state-owned oil company). Now, Rosneft is preparing its IPO, which is advertised as a major event for the Russian economy. Rosneft will issue dozens millions worth shares to cover its assets-with...
...will forever be associated with the “what is in the drinking water at that no-name school?” category. I think I can fairly say that the Evergreen College Geoducks—with apologies to any reader who is a Geoducks fanatic—belong in the latter...