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...people without collateral. Its roots lie not in a U.S. university, boardroom or foundation but thousands of miles away in, of all places, the villages of Bangladesh. Development officers in the Third World have found that self-employment, backed by training and access to credit, can be a path out of poverty...
...further escapades of Ayla and her blond boyfriend, Jondalar the toolmaker, are set in the Dordogne, where Auel has been exploring caves and sifting dirt on an archaeological dig. "I found some pieces of flint and a reindeer milk tooth," she says proudly, as she huffs up a path to an Ice Age rock shelter. Far below, a narrow valley is bathed in mist. On a forested bluff, a medieval fortress glows in pale yellow light. "The vegetation was different then," she says. "But I need to know the lay of the land, where the ridges are, where the high...
...divided, do-nothing government. And he had desired to extricate his boss, George Bush, from his crippling "no new taxes" campaign promise. The long-term strategy was obvious: even if Bush took a drubbing for raising taxes in 1990, he would put the country on a stronger economic path. That could help ensure his re-election in 1992. Darman was thinking anew: "Fix it now. Win it later...
Many impoverished, debt-ridden Third World countries are only just beginning to make their way along the only path forward -- the free market, painful and politically explosive though that is. Again, why should the U.S. care? Even though Marxist revolutionaries and guerrillas still carry on their archaic battles in many places, the danger of such countries' "going communist" is sharply diminished. But the developed world needs Third World countries as markets. Also, economic turmoil would put heavy pressures on the U.S. and other Western nations, not least through growing streams of emigrants...
...true, as Kelly put it, under intense congressional questioning last week, that "it did not succeed." But that does not necessarily mean it was illogical. There are only two basic ways to deal with a rogue nation -- isolation (the stick) or involvement (the carrot) -- and the argument over which path to pursue is unending...