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Smoke and Mirrors In your article "Big Tobacco's War for Africa" you underestimated smoking rates by ignoring the amount of cheap pipe tobacco that is sold and hand-rolled into cigarettes [Aug. 10]. Most of the countries in Africa have a lot of so-called "grey" (that is, unofficial) cigarette imports. Clive Varejes JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
...which wants the state to stop profitable supermarkets increasing prices on food. At a prearranged time its members gather in a supermarket aisle, help themselves to the food for sale and hold a "free" picnic for financially squeezed shoppers. Somehow, television cameras and photographers always seem to be on hand...
...Indeed, Pakistan’s society is a living paradox, more so now than ever. On the one hand, there is the upper class. There is no comfort that money cannot buy, including security. Chauffeured cars and security guards keep these select few at ease in all situations. At the other end of the social spectrum are those who live on the increasingly perilous streets. Approximately 24 percent of Pakistan’s population lives under the poverty line, scrounging for basic necessities in the shadow of the elite...
...United States and train them in his method of study. He said he also hopes to establish a summer program that will encourage students to travel to China to examine history in a similar way. “Szonyi helps to prepare undergraduates learn about Chinese culture first hand,” said East Asian Languages and Civilizations Professor Peter K. Bol, who teaches a course with Szonyi at the College. Szonyi is currently studying the social history of the Ming Dynasty military. He has traced local cults from the Ming Dynasty and has found that some of these cults...
...Israeli general election that would sweep Ariel Sharon into power, Ehud Olmert, then the mayor of Jerusalem and Sharon's right-hand man, explained why the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak had been brought down. Olmert pointed out that at the Camp David peace talks Barak had offered the Palestinians almost all of the West Bank and half of Jerusalem. Olmert declared, "This shows that anyone who dares to raise his hand against Jerusalem will be wiped...