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...little wonder that Botswana is the setting for Alexander McCall Smith's tales of contented Africa in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Thanks to the wealth in its soil coupled with a succession of honest and capable leaders, the country has gone through one of the most rapid economic transformations in recent history. It wasn't too long ago that Batswana children were schooled under trees and the country was so poor that its postindependence leaders famously told inquiring businessmen that there was "no point being corrupt." After years of consistent growth--Botswana since independence...
...world's diamond supply in order to keep prices artificially high. Under the leadership of Gareth Penny, who joined the board in 2002 and became managing director in 2006, the group sold off its entire diamond stock and now sells only diamonds it mines itself (40% of global output). Gone too is the secrecy: De Beers now has a small army of public relations experts keen to produce executives for journalists and is even opening its own retail outlets on some of the world's more well-to-do main streets...
...Gone too, argues Ickes, is the other big strike against Clinton: that she's not as electable as Obama in a matchup against John McCain. Polls have lately shown Clinton faring better than Obama against McCain--in one recent poll, 7 points better--in part, Ickes says, because of her enduring popularity with key Democratic constituencies in the states that matter the most in a general-election campaign...
...gone unnoticed that Ickes, after a generation of maneuvering behind the scenes for insurgent candidates, is working for the Establishment contender this time, in exactly the kind of stodgy corporate campaign he once took a special pleasure in trying to destroy. But as Obama surged and Clinton fell behind, Ickes settled into a more familiar role as sideman to a long shot. Even inside Hillaryland, Ickes is something of a rebel. One part of that is simply his years: at 68, he is twice (and in a few cases, three times) the age of his colleagues. He is allergic...
...team emerged from anonymity in April to launch a sequel, Snatchbuckler's Second Chance. It's filmed in a fictional, virtual world called Peopleburg.com Snatchbuckler, Donnie's erstwhile partner in the online game World of Warcraft, has gone there to shake off his Internet addiction. The video debuted on MyDamnChannel.com in late April, and it looks pretty cool. But I miss Donnie and wish I could Photoshop him back into my life...