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...find the girl and do an update. After a few phone calls in Cairo, I begged off the assignment: the girl was in hiding, fearing reprisals. My editors in Manhattan assumed she'd want to "tell her story." But interviewing the girl again, I had to explain, could bring as much shame and danger as the circumcision knife...
...among the lowest on health care per person of any government on the planet. Hiding out in its new jungle capital Naypyidaw, the junta has not even suggested that oil money will benefit its people. While many oil companies support the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which pushes countries to explain how they spend petroleum money, Chinese oil giants, dominant in Burma, refuse to sign up. Even Brunei, a country that at least used decades of petroleum wealth to provide free health care, is not immune. Suckled on oil, Bruneians demonstrate minimal entrepreneurship, leaving the country with almost no industry when...
...games-so he would rather not turn into a spectacle himself. His ambition is not just to delight people but also to awaken them out of a passive relation to the world. Whether this is a job mere art can accomplish remains to be seen. But it helps to explain why Eliasson has given quite a few of his works titles with the word your in them. So, for instance, when he hung the Palazzo Grassi in Venice with a web of light cables, he called it Your wave is. "It emphasizes the importance of the spectator," he says...
...latest casualty of the Iraq war is Erik Prince, the brash young CEO of the military contractor Blackwater USA. His firm guards dignitaries in Iraq, and on Oct. 2 he got to explain to some of those dignitaries why Blackwater security forces have been known to flee the scene after shooting Iraqis. "Our job is to get them off the X--the preplanned ambush site," Prince said...
...explain this silence, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said that the more the international community pressures Sudan to comply with the ICC, the more likely it is that Sudan will renege on UNAMID deployment. But this is completely wrongheaded—it is precisely because Sudan’s commitment is so tenuous that further international pressure is crucial...