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...other family members are vindicated in the end. It's not at all clear why that should be the outcome. Alec's solution to apartheid was to refuse the help of the servants around the house and eventually fire them all: hardly a way to lift them out of dire poverty. And he doesn't understand that many factors come into play, like different tribes of Africans not being able to put up a united front. Mother Patrice is obsessed with "reasonable" treatment of native Africans. This consists in papering over deep-seated racism with platitudes about needing servants...
...wouldn't know the country's dire straits from the show Kim put on, though. During their first meeting the Great Leader invited Albright to a "gymanistics event" downtown. As she and Kim entered the 150,000-seat May Day stadium, a sellout crowd of blue-suited Korean Workers' Party members let out a sonorous, sustained roar as if at the flip of a switch. Fireworks exploded overhead, and the Great Leader waved. More than 100,000 performers acted out scenes of socialist glory with translated names like If the Party Decides, So We Do and The General and People...
What is happening in the Amazon forest sends a dire alarm that needs to be heeded. I have traveled on many occasions in the past 26 years on some of the roads you described. I can't help noticing the increasing roadside devastation from one trip to the next, as an ever expanding network of side roads penetrates deep into the rain forest. The tinderbox effect is already noticeable in many parts of the Rondonia territory in western Brazil and is responsible for large tracts of unproductive and abandoned desert land in the southern part of Brazil's Para state...
...bills via a payment plan have the option of accessing a schedule that informs them when their next payment is due. The mailing address for term bills may be viewed, so that students can ensure that their bills are being sent to the right places (or in cases of dire parental avoidance, ensure that they are being sent to the wrong places...
...While the IPCC report won't be officially available until after the members meet early next year, ripples could be felt immediately in this year's presidential campaign. Al Gore, who adopted global warming as a pet project many years ago, may take the report's dire warnings to the trail, reflecting on his own record as an environmentalist and hammering his opponent's perceived weakness on the issue...