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...ever, Nepal's 26.5 million people are caught in the middle. "The Maoists have threatened to severely punish us if we defy the embargo," says Chitwan farmer Ashman Tamang. "But we'll starve if this continues...
...some ways, business is brisk. The new Iraqi dinar has shown surprising strength, given the violence, rising 30% against the dollar since it was introduced by U.S. officials last December, as Iraqis have begun to earn and spend far more money than ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned by Saddam--the cell phone--finally hit the streets...
...ordinary Haitians had become disenchanted with Aristide in recent months, it was largely because Aristide’s hadn’t delivered on his promises of poverty alleviation—promises he couldn’t keep thanks to the Bush Administration’s shameful foreign aid embargo...
...smaller companies were smart and lucky. Newmarket, unencumbered by the MPAA embargo, sent Academy members screeners of Monster and Whale Rider and was rewarded with Best Actress nominations for Charlize Theron and 13-year-old Keisha Castle-Hughes. Lions Gate flooded the membership with early screeners of Girl with a Pearl Earring (three arts-and-crafts citations) and The Cooler (a Supporting Actor nomination for Alec Baldwin...
...burgeoning bipartisan support Congress has shown this fall for lifting altogether the ban on travel to Cuba. The Bush Administration has been able to stall that effort for now--and as of Jan. 1 will outlaw exchange tours like John's in order to tighten the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba. The U.S. clampdown could initially cost Cuba 50,000 American visitors each year, the number now traveling there legally on visas like John's. But the 30,000 who go to Cuba illegally through third countries will probably continue to travel there, as will the 200,000 Cuban Americans...