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...respond to TIME's interview requests, but his officials gladly rattle off lists of figures to show Tunisia's progress under his regime. The numbers are striking: while Egypt and Algeria suffer from chronic shortages, Tunisia has a 15% surplus of housing, thanks to massive government construction programs. And about 80% of Tunisians own their homes - ahead of much of Europe. While African countries struggle to educate their children, school is compulsory - and free - in Tunisia up to age 16. About 34% of Tunisian high school graduates go to university, more than five times the rate when Ben Ali took...
...needed for me to leave, and the administration needed to have me leave.” “I think they needed to demonstrate change, and I don’t think you can have a change without it being personified,” Card said in an interview with The Crimson. Card’s remarks appear to contradict the official explanation given by President George W. Bush for Card’s departure on March 28, 2006. When his chief of staff announced his resignation, Bush said that Card had taken the initiative to leave his post...
...last 20 years has undergone an economic miracle unprecedented in history if you look at the speed with which they’ve raised their income,” said Jeffrey A. Frankel, a professor of capital formation and growth at the Kennedy School of Government, in an interview before the event. Frankel said that although China has been rapidly industrializing, it has done so without a large base of natural resources. “China has accomplished this miracle in much the same way that previous great powers have risen...which is manufacturing and trade. You don?...
...Sheffield remembers a job interview in which his political leanings were questioned. When Sheffield explained his liberatarian views, his employer responded by saying, “I thought libertarians were all gun-toting crazies from Texas...
Commodity speculators are exploiting geopolitical tensions to put a "fear factor premium" on oil prices, says Qatar's Energy and Oil Minister Abdulla Bin Hamad al-Attiya in an interview with TIME. The blame for high prices - a record $93.53 a barrel on Monday - should not fall on petroleum producers, he says. "How do you blame us?" asked Attiya, who also serves as deputy prime minister of Qatar, a small country of nearly one million people whose per capita income of $66,000 is the world's fifth-highest. "I am an oil producer and cannot tell...