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...delivered, not just because of last year's G-8 deal, but also because the focus on Africa and aid delivery in the run-up to the G-8 summit encouraged some U.N. agencies and ngos to rethink their business. "We can do it better," says Hilary Benn, Britain's Secretary of State for International Development and one of the leading figures in the debate about aid delivery. "We should all ask ourselves the question: 'What is the most effective form in which we can give support?'" ngos have long struggled to get the balance right between development and emergency...
...doing business. "This country paid a great tribute to my grandfather," Elkann said. "It was a family feeling to respond." Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain, Brazil and France, he returned to his parents' hometown of Turin to study engineering at the rigorous Politecnico University. That was when Elkann began to pass Sundays on the family yacht and afternoons at the Fiat offices with Agnelli, who was then still Fiat's chairman. Speaking from his corner office...
...paid off. In 1988, the London-based writers' association International pen accepted Kurkov as a member on the strength of his unpublished manuscripts. Then, in 1999, Death and the Penguin was picked up by a Swiss publisher, and began its slow climb onto best-seller lists in Switzerland and Britain. At first, some Ukrainians refused to consider Kurkov a Ukrainian writer because he wrote in Russian. At the same time, his criticism of Putin infuriated Russian nationalists. It was only last year that a St. Petersburg-based firm cautiously resumed publishing Kurkov's work. "Since neither Ukrainian nor Russian literature...
...Iran's chief negotiator, Ali Larijiani, told Britain's Guardian newspaper this week that the Iranian counter-offer will address what he said were "ambiguous points" in the Western offer. "These ambiguities persist from the beginning to the end of the package," he told the paper. "The package is more like a statement. If we are going to get agreement, we do not need a sermon...
...Scientist in Britain quoted the Family Research Council's Bridget Maher warning that "giving the HPV vaccine to young women could be potentially harmful, because they may see it as a licence to engage in premarital sex." Others warned of promoting false confidence, since the vaccine does not protect against all strains of HPV or the many other sexually transmitted diseases. Reginald Finger, a former medical advisor to Focus on the Family who sits on the CDC advisory committee, told The Hill that "if people begin to market the vaccine or tout the vaccine that this makes adolescent sex safer...