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...work. Afghanistan ranks 117 out of 158 on Transparency International's 2005 index of perceived corruption. Around 60% of the population has no electricity, and 80% no potable water. The returning refugees have found few houses or jobs. The country is the world's biggest supplier of opium, the raw material for heroin. The illegal drug economy - which some analysts estimate is equivalent to half the country's official gdp - corrupts its politics, and finances the Taliban's recruitment of the unemployed and its purchase of high-quality weapons. President Karzai is highly regarded by the foreign politicians...
...colleges get some kind of independent coaching, which can range in price from $469 for Kaplan's three-hour consultation by webcam to $36,000 for four years of hand holding offered by superconsultant Michele Hernandez. Although consultants are easy to caricature for sanding down and varnishing a nice, raw kid, admissions officers insist that they can see past the polishing to the real human being beneath. How useful counselors are may depend as much on the attitude of the client as the approach of the counselor. "Some of them are very helpful and are helping students learn...
...March?the first such office on the mainland?in a bid to attract some of the 300,000 Chinese millionaires that it reckons are currently underserved. "With the kind of wealth that's been created in the last 10 years or so, clearly there is a lot of raw material," says Citigroup's Leung. "There's a high savings rate, just under $1 trillion in assets have been accumulated, and it looks like that number will double in the next decade or less." Citigroup expects China to become the single largest private-banking market in Asia outside Japan...
...Israelis give us our country back and there will be no need for resistance." Others were merely stunned. "I used to live there, but I don't know where my building is any more," said Sulieman, a 20 year-old student, pointing to some ruins. And some were raw with anger. "Tell them that we are a thorn in the eye of Israel, an unbroken thorn!" screamed one young man. "We will plant a tree of revenge against America...
...Until, that is, he began speaking about Israel. Perhaps still smarting from Mel Gibson's drunken anti-semitic rant, Ganji seemed to hit a raw nerve when he appeared to equate Jewish (and Christian) fundamentalists with Islamic extremists. "The U.S. has to stop its one-sided support of Israel," said Ganji, speaking in a large screening room adorned with an original Jasper Johns and other post-modernist art. That comment and others raised the hackles of many in attendance, including multibillionaire media mogul Haim Saban, who asked, "When was the last time you saw a Christian...