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Some of these worries make sense. In nations like Angola and Chad, Chinese aid has allowed venal governments to ignore multinational donors seeking conditions to ensure that governments buy bread, not BMWs. In a world where easily recoverable oil is dwindling and the price has hit record highs, competition for untapped offshore petroleum in West Africa could spark conflict, with Chinese and Western firms jockeying to build new infrastructure, control ports and woo political leaders. Through its training programs for African technocrats, many of whom return from China amazed, Beijing could indeed promote its authoritarian development model to a continent...
...into the restaurant industry over the last few bites of the best ham and cheese sandwich I had ever tasted. It was actually more like a roll-up. Or a wrap, perhaps, if you imagine the familiar thin tortilla-like casing replaced with extra fluffy crust-free white bread devoid of any hint of soggyness despite its precarious position spiraled perfectly around melted cheese and thin, warm ham. It was cut in half, placed on a platter of crispy, hand-cut, lightly salted potato chips and set in front of me in the bar room of the Hotel Majestic...
...which seems unlikely given Mugabe’s desperate attempts to cling onto power. The country faces extreme inflation exceeding 100,000 percent this year, the worst for any country in the world. A U.S. $100 bill now buys 44 lbs of Zimbabwean currency. while a6y7u loaf of bread costs 7 million Zimbabwean dollars. And it only gets worse: current trends suggest inflation will spiral even further out of control in the upcoming months. Inflation represents only one of the problems of the country. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Zimbabwe has had negative GDP growth rate...
...Reyes says he tries to order “indie” comics, but the more mainstream titles are far more prevalent. He also says people come in to say what comics they’ve read and ask for recommendations, but that such walk-ins are not their bread and butter.“How we stay afloat is by branching out more into pop culture,” Reyes says. “You can sell a $3 comic to someone, but we’re right across the street from the Charles Hotel, so if you have...
...people working on it. But the baby-eating and the eye-sucking and -eating were particularly challenging to figure out how to do. We didn’t quite decide until the day before opening.RR: Cool. What do you think babies taste like?CLB: Um, probably like white bread and ketchup.RR: Sounds delicious.Nick J. O’DonovanRR: So tell me who you play in “Blasted.”NJO: I play Ian. He’s a journalist and member of some shady organization or other. He’s racist, homophobic, generally unpleasant...