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There is a fashion that is half right in saying that aid is not the answer to Africa's plight. Where it is wrong is that aid - especially focused on the killer diseases, like HIV/AIDS or malaria - saves lives and has a real impact. Where it is right, is that aid alone won't relieve Africa's poverty and underdevelopment. But good governance, the rule of law and a climate that welcomes solid private-sector investment can and will...
...It’s tough playing at Brown,” Omodele-Lucien said. “They’re a real prideful team...
...Brown competed real well,” Fish said. “We just had more experience...
...unnoticed amid a confusion of gunfire and sweet, choking smoke. "Get a move on! They're bleeding to death," shouts commanding officer Major Emily Greenwood. The assault - against a nest of "Maliban" insurgents - is a simulation in Wales, the wounds faked. But Greenwood's urgency is all too real. Within a year of completing their training this month, some 60% of these officer cadets from Britain's élite Royal Military Academy Sandhurst will deploy to Afghanistan. There, says Greenwood, "the pace of operations is so fast and there's constant enemy contact. We have to make sure they...
...British soldiers can certainly be overconfident. But John Nagl, president of the Center for a New American Security, believes the real roots of British humiliations in Iraq lie in London. "If the politicians back home are not completely committed to this thing, if they have not leveled with the people on the likely costs of the war, then you're putting an unsupportable burden on the army in the field in a counterinsurgency campaign," says Nagl. "And so as you look at explanations as to why the British army performed better in Malaya than Iraq, one of the questions...