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...other African nations. The food has been languishing in warehouses for weeks as diplomats wrangle over whether to allow GM crops into Zambia, given the possibility for cross-fertilization and the ensuing loss of European export markets. Meanwhile, the toll of Zambian lives claimed by starvation continues to mount...
...With the economy in deep decline and morale slipping, it is unlikely that anybody inside the SAR is going to mount an effective challenge. For sure, there will be no immediate dramatic developments when Article 23 goes into law, any more than there were after July 1, 1997. Beijing knows the value of biding its time, and of letting the gradual erosion of the spirit of freedom take its toll...
...Olympics come home for the first time since 1896, the year Athens hosted the first Games of the modern era. No one is suggesting that the new Nikaia Weightlifting Hall matches the Parthenon for elegance or grandeur. Nor is the new Olympic Village being carved out of marble from Mount Pentelicus, the pride of ancient architects. But the tempo of building is impressive - even Periclean. And it comes not a moment too soon. The Games begin in less than 690 days - as digital countdown signs at major construction sites helpfully remind the workers - and despite remarkable progress in recent months...
SKINS. Chris Eyre, director of Sundance favorite Smoke Signals, returns with another fearless survey of the afflictions of Native American reservation life: poverty, alcoholism and inadequate education. Lakota police officer Rudy Yellow Lodge and his self-destructive Vietnam vet brother Mogie, raised with Mount Rushmore looming above them, deal with their history and their anger at one another. Having created tragicomedy that is unstintingly political, Eyre put his money where his mouth was—this past month, his “Rolling Rez” tour took a mobile theater and screened the film free of charge at Indian...
...Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, along with the island's residents and a CNN crew, which recorded the event for broadcast later this fall. Bush flew by private jet to Iwo Jima, first walking the black sand beach where Marines landed in 1945 and helping raise a flag on Mount Suribachi, where Marines raised the U.S. flag in the famous war picture. "I choked back a tear," he said. Then Bush boarded a Japanese helicopter and retraced the route of his mission. "The waves and wind looked hauntingly familiar," he said. "We saw the place where my target had been...