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...supposed to happen in Kenya. Until a few weeks ago, this country of 37 million was a poster nation of the African renaissance, a term adopted by South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki to describe the continent's economic and political resurgence in recent years. After three decades beset by genocide, famine, AIDS and wars as obscure as they were endless, much of Africa is thriving. Soaring demand for resources like oil, timber and minerals--especially from China--has pushed annual economic growth for sub-Saharan Africa to more than 5% for four years running and is inching toward...
...collective 14-0. Despite graduating 2007 national champion Kyla Grigg ’07 and starting only freshmen and sophomores—including two walk-ons—on the nine-woman squad, the team showed confidence and poise on the way to victory. The Crimson began the season beset with injuries, with 2007 All-Ivy senior Supriya Balsekar out with a hip injury for at least two weeks, sophomore Charlene Neo out against Brown with a shin splint, and freshman June Tiong leaving the match against Williams with an ankle injury. With Balsekar out, Tiong played...
Then again, most of these things were true 14 years ago, and Denmark's welfare-state model seemed exhausted, beset by stagnant growth and double-digit unemployment. Some on the political right--including current Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wrote a book in 1993 called From Social State to Minimal State--were convinced that taxes and spending had to be cut dramatically. But that was never in the cards politically, and Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (there are a lot of Rasmussens in Denmark), who became Prime Minister that year, crafted a compromise that kept the high taxes...
...eight times for 11 yards and scored a touchdown on a quarterback sneak early in the third quarter.“We’ve got to find a way to get more pressure on the quarterback,” Wilson said.DRY AND MIGHTY Sharp winds and heavy rain beset Cambridge most of Saturday afternoon, but the storm barely missed New York, marking the second straight week when the forecast called for worse weather than actually occurred.The swirling winds in Wien Stadium, however, did make things difficult for sophomore punter Thomas Hull, who averaged just 31.7 yards on seven kicks.Both...
...doing well enough. After decades of uneven growth, the economy finally seems on the mend. Meanwhile, the festering insurgencies in the country's south, which have claimed more than 160,000 lives since the 1970s, have entered an uneasy lull. In recent weeks, however, the Arroyo administration has been beset by fresh allegations of corruption, giving the impression of a government under siege. Last week, former President Fidel Ramos, a widely respected figure, warned Arroyo that she was losing public trust: "I have told her, reform yourself before you talk about reforming other people and institutions...