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Having produced extraordinary works by the likes of Peter Godwin (Mukiwa), Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe's troubles seem to prove that you need to suffer for your art. But those authors are white, and Zimbabwe is a country of millions of blacks, whose troubles have undoubtedly been worse. So do we really need another memoir by a white Zimbabwean...
...couple of political slogans: "Regime Change" and "Livelihood First." The former happened almost overnight. Achieving the goals implied by the latter will take years. The Japanese people are patient. They've waited decades to raise a new political party to power. Now it's up to the DPJ to prove the wait was worth...
...fluke, and most "experts" aren't predicting you'll make another run. Is this extra motivation? No. I've been here six years now. We've never been picked a favorite for anything. It kind of comes with the territory. We just have to go out there and prove people wrong once again...
...delivered with it opportunity [as well as] issues" and that improvements would come from new measures such as increased police patrols in problem areas, a new student hotline for complaints and requirements that all 1,300 of the Commonwealth-registered training organizations in the country reregister themselves to prove "that their principal purpose is that of education, not immigration...
...Still, the benefits of greater regional integration could prove powerful enough to overcome the roadblocks. The ADB's Wignaraja foresees Asia becoming a NAFTA-like free-trade zone within the next 10 years. "In Asia, the only thing everyone agrees upon is business," he says. "In the end, pragmatism will prevail." If it does, the world economy may never be the same...