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...Global institutions, especially the IMF, are also feeling the direct impact of their unpopularity: in the past few weeks, both Argentina and Brazil have announced that they are paying back their entire outstanding debt to the IMF?a combined total of $25 billion?in order to wriggle free of its policy conditions. Argentine President Nestor Kirchner accuses the IMF of causing many of his nation's economic woes. In the Ivory Coast, it's the U.N. that is the focus of government wrath. Following a recommendation last week by a U.N.-backed international working group that the Ivorian parliament?which...
...sabotage?is still struggling to regain the locals' trust. Shell has a new strategy. After seeing millions of dollars from its contributions to development funds vanish in the hands of corrupt officials, Shell last month signed a four-year contract with village leaders that puts $7.7 million at their direct disposal. There is no shortage of worthy causes. The region is plagued by malaria and AIDS, and does not have enough schools or health clinics. "We have to do our part," says Emanuel Etomi, who heads Shell's sustainable-development unit in the Delta. Shareholders should be pleased, too: Etomi...
...trust Shell," says Ledum Mitee, who runs the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, which Saro-Wiwa founded before being hanged. Mitee claims his members aren't responsible for the latest attacks. He says Shell must apologize for its practices of the past and begin direct talks with activists. Until then, "this is a situation which is really prone to violence," he says. With global oil supplies still tight, that's a warning that producers and consumers around the world would do well to heed...
...drug benefit, however flawed, passed while they were in power. "Seniors would have nothing if it weren't for Republicans passing this plan," says Amy Call, spokeswoman for Senate majority leader Bill Frist. G.O.P. leaders have so far rejected the major changes proposed by Democrats, including allowing direct negotiation with drugmakers and easing the rules on reimportation of drugs from Canada...
Theorizers, both professional and amateur, think the western helps people to get away from the complexities of modern life and back to the "restful absolutes" of the past ... In the cowboy's world, justice is the result of direct action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there...