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...really ensure that these faltering governments survive the loans must be erased. Or else, the dangerous murmurs will rise again from their populace: Na democracy man go chop? To those not versed in Pidgin English (a miscegenous legacy of the colonial era) the literal translation of this statement means, "is it democracy that we will...
According to Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, the answer to the question, "Na democracy man go chop?" is a simple yes. Sen's bold statement can be paraphrased as follows. Famine does not occur in nations committed to the rule of democracy because elected governments know that the way to the people's vote is through their stomachs. This piece of advice will ring especially true for Nigeria if the military engine is successfully diverted to agricultural productivity...
...never have to sell a share of stock again. Until then, though, remind me next year that you can never take off enough stock ahead of these 31 days unless you are a total masochist. What is it about this month that causes people to lose their senses and chop a third or even a half off the value of solid American companies, like Xerox or Raytheon or Unisys, that screwed up for a quarter? Why do people who are perfectly rational shareholders the 11 other months of the year get gripped with a frenzied groupthink that forces them...
...sort of the Sampson effect in reverse: after their first brush with success, ingenues chop off their locks as if to prove their power does not flow from their follicles. The most recently shorn is Felicity star KERI RUSSELL, who, by cutting her hair, banished one of the highlights of her show's first season. In the tidal wave of fame that followed the release of Pretty Woman, JULIA ROBERTS got cropped. And GWYNETH PALTROW ditched her do upon garnering acclaim for Emma. Maybe it's just a way to avert fallout...
...researchers also found that nearby animal bones dating from the same period had been butchered with stone implements. Cut marks on one antelope jawbone suggest that the hominids used a sharp stone flake to remove the animal's tongue. The leg bone of another animal is scarred by cuts, chop marks and signs of hammering, evidence that it was scraped clean of meat and bashed open to expose the nutritious marrow...