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...that so difficult? Good intentions are partly to blame. Donor countries do not want their aid to overwhelm a country's bureaucracy or feed corruption, so in the name of accountability, they give very carefully. The pledges of aid made by governments are just that--pledges to help, not outlays of cash. Rather than write the U.N. a $4 billion check, governments pick and choose which relief and reconstruction efforts they want to fund. "It makes no sense just to give money," says German Chancellor Gerhard Schr??der. "Our people don't want that." At the donors conference in Jakarta...
...month could be bad for your health. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, analyzed more than 130,000 fatal prescription-drug poisonings and found that they spiked during the first few days of each month--when government assistance checks arrive in the mail. Part of the blame, say the study's authors, may be the increased workload--and higher error rates--as patients flock to their pharmacies...
...more thing—Dartmouth is 0-5 at home. Honestly, I don’t blame them, what with all the terrible people they have there. Try to get into a press box with the wrong type of credentials—it’s no use. They’ll turn you away and make you sit in the cold and rain even though all you’re wearing is a long sleeve t-shirt and three other writers from your newspaper are inside and they all plead with them to let you in. But I digress?...
...eager sponsors to accommodate, are selling horsemeat to the public in the guise of steak. How true. Most of the material that nowadays insults the intelligence and is billed as topflight entertainment is a combination of ham and sow's ear, with neither guise, nor, worse, apology. The blame for this does not belong to the consuming public, whose sense of taste and discernment, once fairly encouraging, has been hammered into near oblivion by several years of Gleasons, Godfreys and giveaways. It belongs to the producer networks, who, like their counterparts in Hollywood, have ignored the obligation incumbent on them...
...When economic times are bad, people look for someone to blame,” Oster explained. “The fact that there were more trials during worse weather means that witches were a scapegoat...