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...Zealand's eight political parties support the deal, but polls show that fewer than half of voters do. Critics fear a flood of cheap goods and farm produce, and point to China's poor record on the environment and human rights. United Future party leader Peter Dunne is boycotting the Beijing signing ceremony in protest at China's crackdown in Tibet, but says abandoning the pact would be "a classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bearing Fruit | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...pastors like Wright who keep blacks down spiritually and economically and keep them grousing over their lot with a sense of entitlement that will never set them free to be everything they can be. The poor folks who belong to churches like Wright's have no idea that the hate and the damnation are dooming them to a hell of their own making. Trinity is a Christian church? Jesus never taught that stuff. Susan Abernethy, San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...bottle of water designed by a Hollywood producer and sold in a frosted-glass container affixed with Swarovski crystals. I don't know if economists use bottled water as a measure of financial well-being, but there must be a growing split between the rich and the poor. Because even as some people worry about being able to put any kind of food on the table, the sales of specialty foods are up 17% over the past two years (compared with 4% for overall food sales). "The financial situation hasn't hurt us," says Andy Arons, CEO of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gourmet Groceries — for More! | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...enter to grow in insouciance.” According to a heedless survey of less than four of my classmates, this was a grievous error. For these few, Harvard is still less “chill” than it is poor or populistic. Many may submit that, more than anything else, Harvard is defined by its lack of perspective on the simple pleasures, its utter divorce in stress and striving from the Frisbee-hurling good nature that has come to epitomize other, more likeable schools...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Locking the Gates | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...ruled Chad as a dictator since 1990. While the attempt did not succeed at ousting the government, violence has not abated and has affected many civilians. “The people in Chad are reeling from the fact that the basic services in Chad are so poor,” said Boualia, who has been responsible for the coordination of UNICEF’s emergency response to situations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. De Waal said that despite the continued violence, there has been no attempt from other countries to establish political stability in Chad. The European Union...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Weighs Crisis in Chad | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

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