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...from a place that exports some of the world's finest coffee, Addis Ababa is a city of cafés. It's also a town of spooks. Whether huddled over tiny glasses of Arabica in luxury hotel foyers or the anonymous place with battered tables and a concrete floor on the north end of Meskel Square, quiet men in dusty suits swap intelligence. There you'll overhear mobile-phone conversations that begin like this: "Ambassador! Of course I'll give the document back ... " Or you might meet close-cropped, burly Americans carrying khaki rucksacks labeled "U.S." who mumble about...
...start of this year when Chavez began ruling by decree. The legislature is also given a rather bohemian tint by the fact that it has its own theater troupe. On the evening of Chavez's marathon address, an actor with garments evoking a past century pranced around the floor of the legislature sporting an anguished look. He shook his fists and waved his arms, pleading loudly with the crowd. He was portraying independence hero Simon Bolivar, reciting some of the Liberator's most famous speeches. "Moral y luces are our first needs," he pleaded. "A people isn't satisfied being...
...years, its economy has grown fast. Nevertheless, India could (and must) have much more human equality. The country is home to the largest number of poor and malnourished. And yet, as mentioned in your June 18, 2007, issue, the estimated cost of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's planned 27-floor mansion in Mumbai is $1 billion, more than the combined annual income of half a million such Indians. As long as excessive bureaucracy and rampant corruption are not tackled, the dreams of equality and inclusive development will remain out of reach. Ramesh Chandra Agrawal, Berlin...
...very good. The new meds I'm on [Clozapine, an anti-psychotic medication] make the episodes come further apart; they last less long when they happen, and they're less intense when they happen. So it's a kind of floor below which I don't go. When I was on Navane [another anti-psychotic medication] back in New Haven, and the first five or 10 years in L.A., I was teetering on the edge all of the time. A slight breeze would push me over into the land of psychosis. Now, I'm mostly well. I'm mostly thinking...
...years, its economy has grown fast. Nevertheless, India could (and must) have much more human equality. The country is home to the largest number of poor and malnourished. And yet, as mentioned in your June 18, 2007, issue, the estimated cost of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's planned 27-floor mansion in Mumbai is $1 billion, more than the combined annual income of half a million such Indians. As long as excessive bureaucracy and rampant corruption are not tackled, the dreams of equality and inclusive development will remain out of reach. Ramesh Chandra Agrawal, BERLIN