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...less optimistic. They regard Arafat's announcement as a ruse, and tell TIME that another name on the short list is Nabil Shaath, who is closely tied to Arafat. Both the U.S. and the Israelis will be happy enough if regional tensions keep the pressure on Arafat to reform. --By Massimo Calabresi and Matt Rees
...deflation hawks still fundamentally misunderstand the nature of Japan's economic stall. Companies here make more than can be consumed, and the Japanese customer simply does not want what is on offer, however cheap it may be. What still is required is a national commitment to structural reform. Revising corporate-governance rules would be a good start. Right now, for example, bank managers need never fear for their jobs no matter how poorly they perform; that's because extensive cross-ownership between banks and affiliated companies minimizes publicly available shares, making corporate takeovers, especially by foreigners, exceedingly difficult. Shielded from...
...charts with Africa, an album filled with driving dance beats and heady optimism about the future. For years, Zimbabwe did live up to its revolutionary promise. It was southern Africa's land of milk and honey - and maize and tobacco and beef. But drought and a botched land-reform program have decimated farming. Last week, a government report named prominent members of the ruling ZANU-PF, including Mugabe's sister and top officials, who had broken the "one man, one farm" rule for the redistribution of white-owned commercial farms. Zimbabweans had known this all along...
...report led to a widespread outcry over the state of the school system and spurred many states to reform their education standards...
Several contributors to the new book and Mallinkrodt Professor of Physics Emeritus Gerald Holton, who co-authored the original report, stressed that “A Nation at Risk” was a revolutionary step in education reform...