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...take it personally. Your restaurant manners were impeccable; your gratuity was generous to a fault. Then why did the waitress sneer at you, and why were the waiters so ill tempered? In fact, what was it with all the snarly help, all the way along your Rocky Mountain holiday this summer? They couldn't all have got out of bed on the wrong side, could they? No. That would assume they all had beds. On the contrary, many of these people, out of necessity, were sleeping in dirt. It would put you in a bad mood...
Suriname has been in political and financial turmoil almost from the time it gained its independence from the Netherlands in 1975. At first the Dutch and other foreign donors gave the new country generous aid, but they cut back sharply in the 1980s when Suriname suffered a series of coups and massacres. The violence culminated in a six-year civil war that led to the fall of the military regime of Lieut. Colonel Desi Bouterse...
...moment, international donors are reluctant to resume large-scale aid until the government of President Ronald Venetiaan puts its tottering economic house in order. Production is in decline, the unemployment rate tops 20% and per capita annual income is only $500. Rather than risk public unrest, the government provides generous subsidies for fuel, food, water and telephone service. But the budget now exceeds revenues by 150%, and the government has been looking for easy sources of foreign exchange...
...fact, "illegitimacy" has about as much to do with welfare as baldness does with Social Security expenditures. Numerous studies have established that welfare does not serve as an incentive to bear additional babies. Furthermore, out-of-wedlock births are increasing throughout the industrial world -- not because of generous welfare policies but because of changing mores and, in , many instances, declining male wages. Recall that Dan Quayle's original target wasn't some impecunious pregnant teenager but the high-achieving Murphy Brown...
...tart, sweet, generous, subtle comedy about cooking...