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...children are forced to walk miles and miles every night to escape abduction by the armies.” After Boston’s presentation, keynote speaker Omara-Otunni took the podium and began his address by summarizing the history of conflict on the African continent, spanning from the European “Scramble for Africa” to the conflicts of today. This history illustrates that the conflict in Uganda is “an exception in terms of magnitude and duration, but certainly not in nature,” Omara-Otunni said...
...Baltic republics regained their independence in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the tiny nation (pop. 1.35 million) has managed to put itself on the edge of far more than just geography. It was the first former Soviet republic to introduce its own currency, and the first European country to adopt a flat tax system, now widely copied in the rest of Eastern Europe. It has also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking your car, buy bus tickets and check your children...
...official plan - depending on the outcome of the next parliamentary election, in March next year - is to keep lowering it by 1% per year until 2011. It was the first of two striking tax initiatives. In the late 1990s, Estonia startled the business community and many of its European neighbors with the second: the decision not to tax corporate profits at all if they are reinvested rather than paid out in dividends. "Lots of foreigners were shopping around for special tax regimes. We wanted to say that we are a country that treats everyone rather well," recalls Kersti Kaljulaid...
Cordingly also shows how the so-called “triangle trade”, the lifeblood of slavery and European colonial development, almost failed because of buccaneer attacks. As the colonies of the New World grew, so did the pirate threat, until its abrupt end at the hands of colonial authorities in the late 1720s...
...centered dramatic art—a freak show. This year, they’d be right. The Pudding selected yesterday the script for its 159th annual stage production, which will open Feb. 23. The burlesque comedy, tentatively titled “The Tent Commandments,” follows a European big-top circus and its semi-occult side show. The peace among the attractions collapses, however, when it’s decreed that only one tent may be pitched in the area. “There’s an ongoing competition,” said Joshua M. Brener...