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Ingenious capital schemes were concocted to finance new projects. Socialized, centrally directed economies -- dressed up in ideological pretensions and encouraged by guilt-ridden sympathizers in the First World -- enabled Africa's traditional grafters to operate on an industrial scale...
...assessment marked the end of the era of Mau-Mauing Westerners into a chic guilt. The World Bank, the IMF and the so-called donor countries made it clear they wanted to wean African countries from thinking of aid as a permanent fact of life. Part of the trend, especially in West Africa, has been to move African executives trained at the World Bank into key decision-making posts within national governments. The Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara, for example, worked for the IMF for nearly two decades before taking a post at home...
...many Latin societies, men do not consider themselves bisexual or gay unless they take the passive-receptive role during sex. Moreover, sexuality is as much a state of mind as an act of body. People may be attracted to someone but unwilling to act on their desires out of guilt or shame; conversely, others may act contrary to their true feelings...
...however ruthless they may be on the surface about isolating themselves, uninfected men are widely burdened with what scholars of war call survivor guilt. These gay survivors see no moral reason, no legitimate distinction, that accounts for why they are alive and their friends and acquaintances are dead. Perhaps they simply preferred acts that proved to be less risky. Many did all the same things as their friends, just as frequently, and have somehow escaped -- so far. In the space of three years, Stephen Petty, an Atlanta theater director, lost his seven closest friends from their teen days in Dallas...
Psychologists and social workers who specialize in treating the gay community see the condition of survivor guilt with growing frequency. "We gay men are living under a pile of corpses that we can't bury emotionally," says Franklin Abbott, a psychotherapist who practices in Atlanta. In extreme cases, he says, when a lover has died, a patient may feel unworthy to be still alive. In his own life, Abbott adds, any word of an acquaintance's early death would have reduced him to tears a few years ago. Now he hears such news matter-of- factly, numbly, without flinching...