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...write-offs and other types of aid. "One dollar of debt relief is the same as one dollar of grants," says a World Bank official. Last week at the G-7 summit, the U.S. Treasury proposed a plan to cancel the debt of about three dozen countries by using money that would otherwise have been earmarked for aid. By swapping aid for debt relief, the onerous repayments would be eased without costing donors anything extra. But another provision of the plan - that all aid should be in the form of grants - has the World Bank worried about bankrupting...
That penetration should not only cancel any gains earned by Hartigan’s success in falling forward, but also force him from his comfort zone—and towards the outside, where he might as well be a stationary target...
...heat from gay activists for his violently homophobic lyrics. His song Damn includes the lyrics, "I'm dreaming of a new Jamaica, come to execute all the gays." And the activism seems to be working. A campaign called Stop Murder Music, launched by London-based OutRage, forced MTV to cancel an Aug. 28 performance in Miami by the Grammy Award--winning reggae artist. With the help of OutRage, activists in New York City are protesting performances by Beenie Man and three other artists scheduled for Sept. 3. In all, 30 Beenie Man and other reggae artists' shows...
...financing for a scripted series. Enter MindShare, a media buyer that wanted to move its advertising clients inside the creative process by producing and underwriting the costs of a new show. It seemed a match made in media heaven. But there were concerns: What if ABC wanted to cancel the show? And how much commercial airtime could the network retain to sell to other advertisers during the program? Network executives also worried that audiences would be turned off if the show seemed to be too commercial. But Mark Pedowitz, executive vice president of ABC Entertainment Television Group, saw a chance...
...Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in April when three Japanese civilians were kidnapped in Iraq, but he refused to withdraw his 550 soldiers as their captors insisted (the hostages were later freed). Likewise, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun last month would not submit to terrorists' demands that he cancel plans to send 3,000 troops to Iraq; as a result, a South Korean contractor who had been kidnapped in Iraq was beheaded...