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...consistency is often little more than the rehashing of tired observations. "They have the Negro openness to new faiths," he writes of the black population of Anguilla. In Belize, "Negroes in jackets and ties?famous throughout Central America for their immunity to disease?walk behind the hearses" and "The Premier is a man of mixed race: Maya Indian, European, some seepage of African." In Mauritius, he insists that the Foreign Minister Gaetan Duval "isn't black. He is a brown-skinned, straight-haired man of forty." Though some of the numerous racial distinctions in this book might be described...
...Ironically enough, much of Naipaul's contempt is reserved for title-conscious ex-colonials. "Calcutta still has an isolated aging set with British titles," he writes. On St. Kitts, "the governor is a Negro knight from another island." And in Belize, "the Premier likes to use titles." These are unlikely observations from a Trinidadian of Indian descent who accepted a British knighthood with both hands. But, along with many other characterizations in this collection, they are from the archive. Naipaul has ceased to be so breezy and has stopped accepting the sort of assignments that in the past resulted...
...radical vision? Perhaps. But Scheer is no blowhard. In the past decade, this earnest economist has, more than any single political leader, transformed Europe's energy landscape. Founder in 1988 of EUROSOLAR, the Continent's premier renewable-energy organization, he pushed through laws that have turned Germany into the world's biggest wind-power user, surpassing the U.S., and the second biggest solar-energy generator after Japan. This is remarkable for a country that is not particularly windy, nor sunny. In Germany and beyond, says Reinhard Loske, energy spokesman for the nation's Green Party, Scheer "is the prime mover...
...frequent disasters made the government look ineffectual, and that forced Premier Zhu Rongji, himself a Hunan native, to take action in 1998. According to Liang Haitang, a Hunan-based supervisor for WWF, an international conservation organization, Zhu dreamed up "the wisest flood control policy ever issued...
...many Americans will not be familiar with the Commonwealth Games. How they could have missed out on the apparently premier sporting contest that pits, say, England’s international rugby sevens team against the mighty sides from Togo or the Cook Islands, is beyond...