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...anything in politics. Georgia and Ukraine prove that when the people trust in themselves, the politicians grow compliant. Is the drive behind the orange revolution fizzling out? The festive part is all forgotten. Our drive now is in working hard. It will likely take more time and effort to fix things than we ever supposed. What are your priorities as Prime minister? We knew the country was in bad shape; we didn't know just how bad it was. We have to tackle the moral and financial degradation of the state - widespread corruption, shadow businesses, a stagnating economy - right away...
Sachs accidentally inserted himself into history. A star at Harvard--he was a tenured professor at 28--he found himself in 1985 at a seminar about Bolivia, which at the time was being battered by hyperinflation. I can fix that, he blurted. The Bolivians accepted the offer. Sachs neglected to tell them that he had never actually worked on a real live economy. But he soon left for Bolivia and made good on his word, stabilizing the currency. His work for the developing world had begun. He would later develop a radical economic program for the Solidarity-led Polish government...
...Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill expressed a common frustration when he remarked about aid for Africa: "We've spent trillions of dollars on these problems and we have damn near nothing to show for it." O'Neill was no foe of foreign aid. Indeed, he wanted to fix the system so that more U.S. aid could be justified. But he was wrong to believe that vast flows of aid to Africa had been squandered. President Bush said in a press conference in April 2004 that as "the greatest power on the face of the earth, we have...
...just a month ago that Republicans, confident in the wake of President Bush?s Social Security pitch during his State of the Union address, were predicting that Americans were convinced there were serious and imminent problems with the program and were ready for GOP legislation to fix it. They aren't so assured now. Returning from congressional recesses, Republicans are admitting that they haven?t yet closed the deal, and now say that the "educating the public" on the issue might take months. "We have to convince the American people there's a problem," House Speaker Dennis Hastert said this...
...encourages students to do original and publishable research projects at the cutting edges of the field. One student said that what is so remarkable about Professor Hoxby is that she teaches with the intention of making a difference, enabling her students to “address [educational] problems and fix them, whether through politics, policy, or publication.” In short, she is in all aspects exactly the kind of professor every Harvard student wants...