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...Bangladesh's drift toward mayhem threatens to undo several decades of solid progress made by one of the world's poorest countries. Thanks to a slew of innovative ngos and a committed cadre of government social-welfare workers, the nation has achieved impressive gains in fighting poverty and slowing the growth of its population. A thriving textile-export industry fills American supermarkets with made-in-Bangladesh T shirts and sweaters, and many Bangladeshi millionaire textile exporters drive about the streets of Dhaka in new Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment...
...first year as dean, 45 percent of students in the school’s master’s of public policy (MPP) program took private sector jobs after graduation. According to Mena, Nye “was alarmed that we were suffering ‘mission drift...
...longer worry about ‘mission drift,’” Mena wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson. “Our challenge now, appropriately, is affording to hold on to these gains...
...avoid conflict. "Money is such a loaded issue, many couples don't have the communication skills to talk about it," says Ellyn Bader, co-founder of the Couples Institute in Menlo Park, Calif. But if you never engage your husband in frank discussions about the budget, you may drift further apart, she warns. "I see lots of premature divorces among couples who keep things so toned down that eventually the relationship feels empty...
...played Moses, Lenin, Simon Wiesenthal and Anne Frank's father Otto in TV movies, and won two Oscar nods for playing gangsters - Meyer Lansky in Bugsy (1991) and, a decade later, Sexy Beast's Don Logan, the Cockney-accented human incarnation of rage. "It is archetypes that I drift toward as an actor," Kingsley says. Almost all of them are touched by tragedy, including his upcoming role opposite Annette Bening in Mrs. Harris, the true story of the philandering Scarsdale-diet inventor Herman Tarnower, who was killed by a jilted lover in 1980. Attention-grabbing roles are now his routine...