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Consider a country that the IMF and World Bank regard as a success: Tanzania, the vast East African nation that is among the poorest places in the world. Best known to Americans for Mount Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti Plain, it has been stable and relatively peaceful since it gained independence in 1961. For two decades, it steered a course of self-reliant socialism--a one-party government controlled the economy, taxed mightily and spent lavishly; its literacy rate was among the highest in Africa. But by the mid-1980s, Tanzania's economy was flat-lining, with hyperinflation, huge budget...
...rest of their tour (dates and locations listed on www.guster.com), I'd say that Guster is definitely worth an effort. Their shows are generally inexpensive and just plain fun, and the trio always manages to pack something unique into the evening...
...name--secretary, staff assistant, executive assistant or just plain old assistant--Pilot and a small army of Harvard employees help keep sane and wise many of the world's most famous academics...
...Plain and simple. And given that we're a magazine obsessed with time and its various accoutrements, it's only fitting that time is what's sticking in our collective craw. Things past. Beginnings, middles, and especially impending ends. It is our tenth issue. To this point, we've filled a lot of boxes, so to speak, with quite a few mounds of text and a large number of megabytes of photos...
Contributor Eugene Linden is the author of The Future in Plain Sight. You can e-mail him at daily@pathfinder.com