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...TIME: Your image as a role model for African leaders has been tarnished by the perception that your government is not concerned with human rights. Meles: As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have over a number of years learned to be a little less direct. And I have certain misgivings about these human rights organizations and their activities. I see fundamental structural flaws in the way they operate. The way it's done...
...handled fearlessly--plummeting 29,000 ft. (9 km) into the ocean in a hot-air balloon or realizing while flying solo that his fuel tanks were leaking. But with a "low threshold" for boredom, he pushed himself to a series of exploratory feats, most famously becoming the first person to fly around the world alone in a hot-air balloon, in 2002. "I don't like to be scared," he said. "I spend a lot of effort figuring out how to reduce risks." It is unclear whether such effort was enough to sustain Fossett, 63, who took...
...Since Mary Richards was not a wife or a mom or (à la That Girl) a single gal defined mainly by her boyfriend, her self-titled sitcom was able to be a sophisticated show about grownups among other grownups, having grownup conversations. Moore made Mary into a fully realized person, iconic but fallible, competent but flappable ("Mr. Gra-a-a-ant!"), practical but romantic. Mary was human and strong enough to be laughed with and laughed at, and that was the kind of liberation that mattered most...
...event. Instead, we are going to take away that lousy $20-an-hour job and give it to someone who is "volunteering" out of idealism or isn't really volunteering at all. It would take $50 an hour to make this job seem economically worthwhile to this person, but since this is part of "national service," you are only paying him or her $5. Result? Someone who truly wants the job cannot have it, while someone who really doesn't want it is forced to do it for $45 an hour less than what it would take to induce...
...period. According to French press reports, temperatures only reached seasonal averages around 10 times during those same three months, with highs frequently 10 to 20 degrees below normal. Little wonder the Seine-side version of a Potemkin beach - the annual Paris Plage - drew less people and shorter visits per person this year, or that its food, drinks, and ice cream vendors shut up shop reporting disappointing sales. And these weren't the only merchants affected by the weather...