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...ADDICTION For those who crave strange and unusual designer items, Addiction (15 Gough Street) is an ideal fix. Showcasing up-and-coming designers from around the world, it purveys the kind of quirky creations you never knew you wanted, or needed, until it was too late. Look out for things like hand-knitted "creature" toys, ceramic-pigeon lamps or plaster-cast wall hooks fashioned in the shape of disarmingly expressive hands...
...long neglected. They started businesses, only to see them fail because of the endemic corruption. They launched NGOs, only to see funding dry up because of apathy back home. They came with hope, but leave with despair. With them they take years of knowledge and experience that can never be replaced. Few of us can look to the future of this country with an expectation that things will improve before they get worse...
...years the expatriates in Kabul considered themselves above their contemporaries in Baghdad. We shopped in the markets and mixed with Afghan friends. We drove freely through the city and flew kites on Friday afternoons. Yes, there were the occasional kidnappings or rocket attacks, but never did we feel antipathy from our Afghan hosts. The new expatriates moving in, usually as part of big contracting firms, are increasingly being funneled into isolated compounds surrounded by razor wire and concrete blast walls. They shop at PXs, not local markets. They go out in armored convoys that cause traffic jams. And the only...
...resignation of Marrazzo, a member of the center-left, serves the conservative Berlusconi politically. The Prime Minister can argue that he is hardly the only politician guilty of peccadilloes. Opposition supporters point out that Marrazzo rather quickly pulled out of politics after the revelations while the Prime Minister has never shown an ounce of contrition. But Vittorio Zincone, who writes on politics and culture for the weekly magazine of the Milan daily Corriere della Sera, says there is an unconscious effect on the body politic. "The Marrazzo affair solidifies for many Berlusconi's reputation as the real ladies man," says...
...managers, to the school principals - it was just left to the bureaucracy. That's why we had a meeting of school principals from across the country in Durban. And education is one of the most important things. If we do not pay attention to education, we will never move forward...