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...catch the public eye, however, and hence remain desperately underfunded. Yet it is by making modest investments in very large numbers of the most vulnerable people in the world that millions can enjoy a better, longer life. And the need for high-profile crisis interventions will be reduced. Andrew MacMillan Scansano, Italy Overstretched Referees Re "Officially wrong" [July 3], about the World Cup referees making bad calls: A single referee must linger near the center of the field and watch all the action from a distance. Since most penalties occur near the goals, it is understandable that refs make such...
...tied coming into the ninth, Harvard failed to mount an attack in the top half of the inning. In the bottom of the ninth, Javier Castellanos, who pitched 1.2 innings of solid relief, delivered a one-out walk to Kraig Binick, who promptly stole second. A single from shortstop MacMillan plated the winning run to give the Bears their second victory.NYIT 9, HARVARD 6In the first game of the series, a back-and-forth affair played in cold, miserable weather, NYIT grabbed a 9-6 victory. The Bears seized a commanding lead with a five-run third, aided...
...story, but they don't often get the chance to do so. Thank goodness, then, for Elisabeth Wynhausen, who decided the best way to listen to the poor was to struggle and sweat alongside them. For her book Dirt Cheap: Life at the Wrong End of the Job Market (Macmillan; 246 pages), she shed her identity as a senior newspaper journalist and took up residence in a world most people never...
...year 2004 was one for the record books: the world economy grew at its fastest rate in almost three decades. And most observers predict that growth in 2005 will continue to be relatively robust. The developed world, to paraphrase British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's 1957 proclamation to his countrymen, has rarely had it so good. Why, then, are so many economists so nervous? When TIME's annual Board of Economists round table met during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, late last month, the discussion focused less on what is going right in the global economy than...
...Hugh Masekela; Lullabies from Mama Africa is a wonderful collection of traditional songs sure to soothe crying babes. The Winds of Change is a fascinating collection of songs associated with the struggle against apartheid: folk ditties mix with snippets from famous speeches, including British Prime Minister's Harold Macmillan's 1960 "Wind of Change" speech, Nelson Mandela's 1964 Rivonia trial speech and Thabo Mbeki's more recent "I Am an African" speech. You can order them all online at www.africancreammusic.co.za...