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...surge in spending by international aid agencies is also stimulating the economy, even reaching up to the ravaged Tamil north, where a highway to Jaffna is being rebuilt by the Asian Development Bank. Although thousands of Tamils who had to leave their homes during the civil war still languish in refugee camps, conditions in the north are slowly improving. In Killinochchi, an LTTE-controlled town that saw some of the fiercest fighting, a landscape of burned-out, bullet-scarred buildings is intermittently relieved by a brand-new office or restaurant. The LTTE has even opened its own caf? in town...
...policy that the Democrats are tacitly supporting through obstruction. Further, parents who can scrape together enough money to afford to send their kids to private schools do, and the rest of the students (by far the worst off in terms of socio-economic status) are left to languish in public schools...
Most readers have probably never heard of González Leiva. Indeed, the dissidents who languish in Castro’s jails typically remain nameless and faceless to the American public, despite being 90 miles from our shores. For every Armando Valladares—the Cuban poet who was held for 22 harrowing years before an international campaign helped gained his release in 1982—there are thousands of other brave souls whose pleas were never answered. Human-rights groups estimate that there are currently more than 300 “prisoners of conscience” in Cuba...
...becoming a leader in all things cool. The products of pop culture will not result in any significant economic benefit to Japan. They will be cute little domestic things with extremely limited international appeal and acceptance. Until Japan can undertake fundamental political and industrial reforms, it will continue to languish in the doldrums. Change, not gimmicks and pop culture, is Japan's future. People who start their own businesses will be the leaders of tomorrow. So what's right with Japan? Keep looking because it hasn't popped up yet. Matthew Shull Tokyo...
...compete with them collectively. But we're seeing these brands take Levi's vintage styles and modernize them." Nevertheless, Levi's has taken some lumps from tiny jeans operations like Earl. And in a depressed retail market, the smaller fashion brands and boutiques are posting gains as bigger brands languish on shelves...