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Oppenheimer's experience in Botswana has firmly cemented his position on the question, Is business better for Africa than aid? "I'm anti-aid," he says. "It's brought more problems than it's solved." Donors reward bad governments, he argues. "Where Africa is coming right and is on an upward trend, that attracts business. Where it's doing badly, that attracts aid." Oppenheimer consults regularly with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who leads a growing body of opinion on the continent that has come to the same conclusion. "In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion...
...chill process,” Rich says. In the classic fairy tale chosen for this year’s production, a mother convinces a queen that her daughter possesses extraordinary spinning skills. The daughter, who is actually lazy and loathes spinning, is offered marriage to the prince as a reward for spinning an entire room full of flax in three days. The lazy daughter cheats, and as punishment for her deception, she is forbidden from ever spinning again. The moral of this story is somewhat unclear and seemingly encourages laziness. The only certainties about this show are the playful comedy...
...resounded. But then Clinton, she has slowly been chipping away my support; she's done everything I hoped she wouldn't. She went there with her attacks. I started leaning towards Obama and today sealed the deal." For Obama, the test will be if enough people like Woods will reward him for resisting the growing pressure to go negative...
...month after former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan brokered a power-sharing deal, because the two sides bickered over who should get which powerful Cabinet posts. What's more, in hammering out compromises, the rivals have simply expanded the size of the government - increasing its costs - in order to reward their followers...
Grandpop's reward was nothing so grand as getting elected U.S. Congressman. His highest position was ward secretary in the 43rd. But when he retired from the plant, Grandpop got a job working at the election commission down at City Hall. In his mind, it was a due reward for his years of service to the party, payment for his loyalty; it was a reminder, too, of those countless days in the 1930s when he was unemployed and walked each morning the 12 miles (20 km) down Broad Street to City Hall in hopes of getting work. That...