Word: foreigners
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...doesn't need. Compared with Tzipi Livni, the woman he narrowly beat out, and even Ehud Olmert, the man he succeeds, incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuis cool toward a Palestinian state. And although it includes the moderate Labor Party, Netanyahu's ruling coalition teems with right-wing figures like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, whose call for a loyalty oath directed at Israel's Arab citizens dismays even Israel's staunchest friends...
...send diagnostic tests to labs around the country to track the flu's spread, while 11 million courses of Tamiflu were made available. "We are seeing a much more clear and cogent response than in the past," says Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations...
With the criticisms recently launched against foreign aid programs, do you think Africa is better off without them? Cherae Robinson, ATLANTA...
...Ecuador Still Driving on the Left Ecuadorians handily re-elected President Rafael Correa on April 26, endorsing his policies of "21st century socialism" and of blaming capitalism for the global economic crisis. Correa, who has refused to pay some foreign debts and has increased social programs for the poor, has plenty of company among regional leaders...
...after his win, he told foreign reporters that he hopes public schools and clinics will rival the quality of private institutions in eight to 10 years. He will "accelerate and deepen" the changes he started when he took office in January 2007, he said. More important, for business interests, the string of wins at the polls gives Correa no reason to shift to a more radical socialist position, says Latin America analyst Patrick Esteruelas at Eurasia Group in New York City. Instead, says Esteruelas, "Correa will enjoy greater flexibility to make some macroeconomic-policy adjustments to buttress liquidity and prevent...