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...western attempts to industrialize Africa have resulted in the loss of indigenous mastery of land cultivation, leading to villages that are less able to support themselves in ways they could afford. And Western relief efforts are either too focused on urban areas or mishandled by corrupt governments, and thus fail to alleviate the problems...
...Americans do not show a collective willingness to decrease our dependency on foreign oil, if we do not immediately start to shore up our public education system, if we fail to ask big corporations and multimillionaires to pay a fair percentage of taxes and if we do not join the international community in both economic and military planning, then we will find ourselves, quite simply, dead in the water. All conceivable future advancements will amount to nothing if we fail to address the problems that are here and now. Ann Larson Reno...
...five members of the Strokes appear to have studiously avoided wandering under a showerhead since birth. Yet in photographs they never fail to appear devastatingly stylish, like a bunch of Bowery James Bonds. This poseurship is just one of the reasons it takes immense critical discipline not to hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art-directed to achieve the look of not having been art-directed. But when you actually hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with each passing guitar chord, and suddenly...
...Though it's unclear whether a formal referendum is legal, Roh later said he might try to get the law changed to ensure a vote is taken. "I'm ready to step down if I fail to win enough confidence," he said. "It is more important to establish the political culture of taking responsibility and lead national politics in the right direction than to complete my five-year term." His colleagues certainly seemed to take him seriously. On Saturday, Roh's Cabinet and senior presidential staff resigned en masse to take responsibility for the administration's failures. Roh refused...
...event on U.S. soil and the U.S. economy would contract severely. The American consumer that has kept the global economy afloat won't be willing to paddle the boat anymore. In turn that would lead to a massive global recession. This is a war we must win: if we fail, the rest of the world goes down with us. Joe Reasbeck Superior...