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...Robert Mugabe's favorite activities. Ministers routinely decline interview requests from the station, which the government has slammed as a tool of colonial-minded Britain. (Jackson says funding comes from NGOs and other donors, but not the British government.) Station personnel have been banned from their homeland - though sources still phone in with their reports. And the staff sometimes hears of listeners being targeted. Recently, in the Mashonaland West town of Zvimba, two teens listening in on someone else's radio were beaten by soldiers. In fact, SW Radio is only taking a page from Mugabe's own playbook. During...
...tough to get along with. Born in 1920 into a prominent Jewish family in London, she graduated from Cambridge in 1941, then went on to do groundbreaking work on the molecular structure of coal, first in England and later in France, a country she vastly preferred to her homeland. She earned a reputation for meticulous lab work and a brusque manner. Words like difficult, bossy and impatient crop up frequently in the recollections of those who knew her. Prickly is a particular favorite...
This concern is practical, defensive and not nearly so exciting as zapping an al-Qaeda leader with a Hellfire missile. It goes under the dreadful name of homeland security--and it has the further disadvantage of inducing feelings of utter helplessness. Guys don't do helplessness very well; they do action...
Democrats, in a typically garish display of ineptitude, allowed the issue to slip away in 2002. They blocked the Department of Homeland Security--which they had proposed in the first place--because the Republicans wanted to loosen union rules governing hiring and firing. Biden believes this stubbornness cut into his party's usual advantage with women and cost it the election. The Democrats, of course, succumbed immediately thereafter: the Department of Homeland Security was established. But not very much security has come of it. Indeed, Budget Director Mitchell Daniels blurted the real Bush strategy last week: "There is not enough...
...Some 30,000 Sri Lankans who fled their homeland in the 1980s and '90s came back on visits last year to see if the place was livable again. But foreign investors have been less eager to return. "We need to sign a document with the LTTE," sighs Arjunna Mahendran, chairman of the government's Board of Investments. "That's what people are waiting...