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Though long considered the favorite to win the position of Director General at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, Hosni's chances of winning that role later this month have been hit by an international campaign launched earlier this year. It began with a boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's UNESCO Candidate: An Anti-Jewish Bigot? | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

America is obsessed with food. In the past couple of years, Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks; Wal-Mart started selling organic milk...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Julie and Julia | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

The angry and at times violent protests that broke out in Gabon on Thursday, Sept. 3, following the results of the Aug. 31 presidential election weren't fueled only by accusations that the contest had been rigged. A large portion of the fury was also focused on former colonial power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gabon's Rage at France's Influence in Africa | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

Blame it on Françafrique, the name given to the relationship between successive governments in Paris and the client regimes that arose across Africa as France swapped colonial control of nations in exchange for arrangements conducive to French political and business interests. For decades, Françafrique produced corrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gabon's Rage at France's Influence in Africa | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

In the Friday edition of the daily Libération, editorialist François Sergent agreed, urging France to end its "incestuous relations" with the African leaders it has connived with out of "mercantile and political interests." Harking back to Sarkozy's Dakar speech to students in which he promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gabon's Rage at France's Influence in Africa | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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