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...Americans are embroiled in the Middle East and forced to listen to people like President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran because of our need for oil. We cannot expect success in dialogue or negotiation when those people have something we desperately need. The only way to attain objectivity in foreign policy is to eliminate the oil factor. Americans need to make huge lifestyle changes (sell-or junk-the Hummer, and tighten your belt) while we develop oil alternatives. Otherwise, we will have only ourselves to blame for the huge number of young lives that will be sacrificed in the name...
...Opinion polls indicate that citizens are tiring of the protests and feel they should end because they hurt Taiwan society. There will of course be people who think that way. Eighty-seven people were carried away by the police. That's probably what influenced public opinion. They didn't listen when we told them not to lie on the streets ... But if President Chen doesn't resign, there will be no peace and stability in Taiwan...
...with three. “Obviously as a player she has stepped up. But as a leader off the field as well,” Odorczyk said. “She is starting to speak up and people really respect what she has to say. When she talks people listen.” “Since I came to preseason, Coach Walsh has pushed me out of my comfort zone trying to make me into a leader on the team,” Nichols said. “That’s what I have tried...
...proverb goes, Muhammad Yunus taught Bangladesh how to fish. Beginning only with $27, the 66-year-old former economics professor from Chittagong built an institution which uplifted impoverished millions in his country and, if you listen to him, portends the end of global poverty. His Grameen Bank-which is named after the Bengali word for "village"-extended credit to rural poor, empowering entire communities, and especially women, to work, earn income and improve the conditions of their lives. He spoke to TIME moments before hearing the news that he and the bank he founded had been awarded the 2006 Nobel...
...first opposition came from the husbands, who thought we were insulting them. The second were the mullahs, who started preaching that taking money from the Grameen Bank was against religion and that they should leave it to their husbands. Some even scolded the women for being so gullible to listen to us and claimed that we were Christian missionaries! We told them that in Islamic history women had been warriors and businessmen - look at the Prophet's first wife! There was also political opposition: the radical Left campaigned against us because they thought we were part of an American conspiracy...