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Vargas Llosa stumbles again when he tries to suggest reforms of his own. In a bland final chapter, he proposes a radical reduction in the size of government. But his plan assumes that change will originate at the top—from executive action—rather than through grassroots advocacy...
More frustrating for the reader is that the book is really a collection of papers Schliefer wrote between 1993 and 2005, with an introduction and a conclusion thrown on the ends. And it feels like a collection of papers, not a unified whole. A chapter on the unofficial economy in 1997 is followed by a chapter on legal reform in 1996, which is followed by a chapter comparing federalism in China and Russia in 2001. Each chapter does well on its own, but Shleifer does not convince the reader that one has to slog through all of them to fully...
Indeed, though the book is filled with fascinating research from key periods in the transition, all you really need to read to digest the most salient pieces of evidence is the last chapter, in which Shleifer introduces the systematic comparisons to other middle-income countries that tie together his “normal” thesis...
...home is the last one marked for demolition. The social message is more overt than most in Wilson's canon: the play is about the "failure of the black middle class," he says, "who failed to return their expertise, participation and resources back to the community." Yet the last chapter of this 10-part journey full of tears and tragedy ends with an affirmation, a hopeful sign for the future. "We got to be united and come together," says Wilson, "before we can proceed on, into the 21st century...
...threats." Later, Townsel says, Bolton falsely told AID and other U.S. officials that she was under investigation for misuse of funds. Democrats and TIME have found witnesses to corroborate parts of Townsel's story. Republicans point out that she is a Democrat who was a member of the Dallas chapter of Mothers Opposing Bush during the 2004 campaign. Townsel tells TIME she did public relations work for the organization but insists her story about her encounter with Bolton--which "had a tremendous, terrible impact on me"--is true...