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Fakhruddin Ahmed doesn't strike you as a tough guy. He's mild mannered and academic in the way you might expect of an economist who has previously served as a central banker and a World Bank bureaucrat. He talks about spending time with his family and watching movies with his wife. He uses words like "epistemologically" and "baneful." But, as Bangladesh's current boss, the 66-year-old Ahmed is showing a steely resolve. Beginning last October, the capital Dhaka was struck by violent street clashes between rival supporters of outgoing Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party...
...approach to Mugabe, finally issued something akin to a reprimand, calling on all parties to respect the rule of law. (In private, the language is understood to have been more forceful.) The current chairman of the African Union, the Ghanaian President John Kufuor, called Zimbabwe "embarrassing." These rebukes are mild, but compared to past silence or support for Mugabe, they represent a substantial shift...
...Barley. What are we talking about here - agronomy? Nor does its narrative - 1920s Ireland in the throes of what we would now call an "insurgency" - provide the analogies to current events that it would have been easy to make. Then there's the Ken Loach problem. He is a mild-mannered English leftist who has been for years making earnest, naturalistic, rather conventionally mounted studies about working-class topics that do not make the cinephile's aesthete spirit leap in anticipation. He's the kind of guy who turns down decorations from the Queen because he loathes the evil...
...Their first big break was a meeting with Summers in Dec. 2003. The meeting was a mild success, if not a bit inconclusive in its efforts to move “sustainable Allston” from a concept to a real objective...
...worked with was served a cease-and-desist order, a co-op member offered her nearby home as a new pickup site. Meanwhile, some of Hebron's clients in Michigan and Illinois have been flooding the fax machines of state agriculture officials to protest the treatment of the mild-mannered dairyman. In Feburary, the Amish farmer who supplies Hebron's co-op with raw milk received a warning letter from the FDA about potential interstate commerce violations. Hebron met with federal officials in Detroit on March 6th to defend the legality of herd-sharing arrangments, and is adamant about continuing...