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...fight against apartheid is over. Journalists should now be focusing on the performance of the ANC after 14 years in power. On its watch, South Africa has seen increased unemployment, a widening of the gap between rich and poor, lowered educational standards, declining health services, an uncontrolled AIDS pandemic, a justice system in disarray, an inept police force, the second highest murder rate and the highest rape rate in the world, ethnic cleansing of white citizens, the national electricity provider unable to satisfy power needs, and more than half of municipalities approaching bankruptcy. Cynics now predict that South Africa will...
...hard not to root for these teens, even Megan, the somehow-poor little rich girl. But it's also tough to ignore their similarities to countless characters in teen dramas and comedies. John Hughes sculpted a career writing about kids like these in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink; Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks mined the same vein. Burstein's film is way more earnest, but she's learned a lot, maybe too much, from the movies' take on teendom. Rather than offer a gritty view, upending the familiar vision of high school angst, she has fashioned...
...This lawsuit, will it make you rich?" Hamdan asked after a long pause...
...sample just one of Château Margaux's great vintages - the sweet tannins and voluptuous fruit of a 1990, say, or the big, rich spiciness of a 1983 - is to savor winemaking at its most refined. To take home 18 of them is an oenophile's dream. And here's your chance. Starting with Château Margaux, London merchant the Antique Wine Company is offering limited-edition collections of the finest vintages from each of Bordeaux's eight most illustrious châteaux...
...Dhabi's funds, and those in such places as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are part of an epochal shift in the economic balance of power toward the energy-rich Gulf. It helps that the downturn in the U.S. economy and the anemic dollar are offering up relative bargains. Shares in GE - the great symbol of American management prowess - have fallen by more than a quarter in the last year...