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...Brad Pitt, he's been a regular eminence here. He was on-screen in 2006 for Ocean's Thirteen but stayed in Namibia to be with Angelina Jolie as she gave birth to their daughter Shiloh, was here in 2007 for Babel, and accompanied Jolie last year when she starred in Clint Eastwood's Changeling. Now he's the star of Quentin Tarantino's World War II epic Inglourious Basterds. So, to fanciers of ambitious films and soulful beefcake, Pitt and Depp will be battling for the title of Sexiest 45-Year-Old to Walk Up the Red Carpet...
...years. In the Middle East, after helping broker a historic peace deal with Israel in 1993, Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement quickly lapsed into authoritarianism and corruption. As a young man, Henning Melber, executive director at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala, Sweden, fought in Namibia against white rule. Watching his fellow liberators turn on their own people once the war was won taught him that revolution and democracy are "incompatible," he says. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...their first two games against Denmark and Bermuda with poised batting and destructive bowling. If they finish in the top four of their group - which also includes, the Netherlands, UAE and Kenya - they go to a knock-out stage and could meet the likes of Ireland, Scotland, Oman, Canada, Namibia and Uganda. The top four of this group will play in the World...
...effective,” Sengeh says, noting that kerosene is prohibitively expensive. Microbial fuel cells can last for ten years, and can be easily replaced by changing the soil. The group plans to use a $200,000 grant from the World Bank to conduct an 18-month pilot in Namibia, beginning next fall. Sengeh says they hope to develop a final product by the end of that period. According to team member Zoë Sachs-Arellano ’06-’07, the group will partner with the Namibia Connection Youth Network to target people in different villages...
...whose annual conference attracts the likes of Bill Gates and Tony Blair, earlier this month ranked Canada's banking system as the soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher capital ratios than anyone else in the world is a source of pride," says analyst Mario Mendonca with Toronto-based investment bank Genuity Capital Markets. (Read "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure Crisis...