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...planning to capitalize on the public's willingness to pay $4 for a cup of coffee by hiring baristas and dropping espresso machines in 14,000 of their fast-food outlets. Meanwhile, Starbucks, with business lagging, is fighting back with an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy, by offering heated breakfast sandwiches and adding drive-thru windows to some of their locations...
...reviving with relatively little corruption and subsiding tribalism. The IMF expects Liberia, shattered by civil war from 1989 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2003, to post economic growth of 13.3% this year. There is hope for Kenya too. After all, the majority of Kenyans chose not to join in the tribal violence. Many civil-society institutions are strong and cut across tribal lines. Journalists, church leaders, women's groups, lawyers, tourist operators and even some politicians have united to condemn both the mobs and Kibaki, calling for an end to the killing and for the President to quit...
...Trading with the Enemy Act, which imposes sanctions on North Korean trade. And billions of dollars, not just from South Korea but also from the U.S., Japan and China, will be needed to bring North Korea into the global economy - assuming, that is, that Kim Jong Il wants to join. Skeptics note that Kim has played this game before, feigning cooperation in return for aid, only to revert to belligerence and isolation. But the Bush Administration and experts in Seoul seem to believe things will be different this time. One of the South's foremost North Korea watchers...
Kolic will join Harvard students from both the Democratic and Republican camps as they head to New Hampshire today to try to influence the wide-open races...
...Laura Ingalls Wilder books, the Democrats assembled for their uniquely convoluted system, which involves gathering next to the sign of your favorite candidate, hoping you can collect more than 15 percent of the voters in the room, trying to convince the followers of the least popular candidates to join you - and, most of all, re-explaining the rules every few minutes. To my right, in the unadorned gym, the Republicans sat in neat rows of folding chairs, wrote down the name of their favorite candidate and quietly waited for the winner to be announced. Like most Americans, I wanted...