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...military conflict. What President Bush’s White House never recognized is that the roots of militant Islam could always be traced back to the very sort of careless and baseless military intervention that it ended up endorsing. The war in Iraq may not be the imperialistic oil-grab some on the left have evoked, but the indignation and dissembling with which its leaders have responded to the mercenary problem certainly does little to combat that perception—at home or in the nurseries of anti-American agitators...
...keeping with the campaign’s theme, the proposed changes are outlandish, involving the full conversion of energy consumption on campus to soybean or corn oil within two years...
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Perhaps most importantly, both candidates have put forward plans to safeguard the expected billions of dollars in oil revenues which should start to flow into the country's coffers after 2010. In October, Akufo-Addo said he planned to set up an "oil fund" to invest revenues in developing the country's education, health-care and basic infrastructure. Mills went further, calling for the formation of an "independent authority which will account for the oil resource." "We don't want it to be a curse," he said. That curse, or resource curse, as economists call it, describes a tendency...
...reassured. The benefits of growth have not trickled down far enough, and most of Ghana is still poor. There are few roads in the north of the country. Few homes in the capital Accra have working sewers. Frustration over all this, say some, is made only deeper by the oil discovery. At a presentation on the election at the independent think-tank, the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, earlier this year, the political analyst and former director of the country's Narcotic Control Board, K. B. Quantson, warned: "Ghana should not delude itself that it is living well above mayhem...