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...borders. That's not always been a good thing. Mbeki, who succeeded Mandela as President in 1999, tried to forge a middle way between revolution and democracy by calling on the ANC to embrace a "democratic revolution" in government. The approach proved schizophrenic. Mbeki the democrat adopted liberal economics, oversaw impressive growth and won plaudits as a consensus-building peace negotiator across Africa. Mbeki the revolutionary saw his country's AIDS epidemic as a Western conspiracy, a stance which cut treatment and cost 330,000 South African lives between 2000 and 2005, according to a November report by the Harvard...
...Royal Bank of Scotland is rumored to be mulling a move to South Africa after vandals smashed windows and his car at his Edinburgh home. Britons are livid that Goodwin was awarded a $1 million annual pension after he quit RBS in disgrace last year. The 50-year-old oversaw a disastrous expansion that almost felled one of Europe's largest banks, prompted a $30 billion government bailout last fall and triggered the biggest annual loss in U.K. corporate history. "We are angry," a group claiming responsibility for the attack wrote in an e-mail to an Edinburgh newspaper, "that...
...this quiet strength. Due in part to her efforts my budget was restored entirely." -June S. Binney, a former New York official who oversaw health care in the city's correctional system. (New York Times...
...Different missions and different mixes of manpower make each center unique."If you've seen one fusion center - you've seen one fusion center," says Jack Tomarchio, former deputy director of intelligence for the Department of Homeland Security, who oversaw the development of most of the country's state fusion centers during the Bush Administration. Tomarchio says the centers have proved their value in fighting both crime and terrorism - sometimes exposing the link between the two, as in the case of cigarette smuggling in the Carolinas which funded terrorist groups abroad. They also have provided valuable information in preventing further...
...Liked to surprise the 130 state employees he oversaw with "thunderbolt" exercises by walking into their offices and saying, "Okay - there's a fire in the building and you have to evacuate. What...