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...recognize that your magazine caters largely to a U.S. audience, but the over-representation of U.S. athletes in "100 Olympic Athletes to Watch" may mean that some of your readers do not focus on athletes from other countries who have fascinating stories. Richard Barrett, Honolulu...
...What's your view of emergency aid? It's a mixed bag. When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance. [But that can mean]the name of the game is [to] include a bit of hyperbole, and that can convey the message that the situation is hopeless when in fact it is not, and that might do some lasting damage, given the fact that all investors take their information and make their assessments on the basis of the 24-hour news cycle. Famine has wreaked havoc in Ethiopia...
...sure whether the money is being spent in a manner that adequately promotes development. There are excellent NGOs, good ones, mediocre ones and good for nothing ones. [Then again], development is not going to happen on the basis of external assistance. [A lack of foreign assistance] does not mean that development has to be abandoned...
...cultural past, and they still figure large in this seasonal festivity," explains Schiavetti, who says the ACA's move to scuttle shows by Lagravère are as widely resented as the push to ban bullfighting. "It's seen here by most people as an injustice and a mean-spirited effort to impose one kind of thinking on attitudes and events rooted in tradition." Kids, the pro-bullfighters say, are no more exposed to injury in events than children who play rugby...
...that they will be doing so in record numbers. About 20% of the electorate cast early ballots of some kind in 2004 and that figure jumped to 25% in the 2006 elections. Early voting experts believe it will skip again in this cycle to around 30%. That could mean that perhaps 35 to 40 million people will cast ballots before the polls open...