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...appointment way back in 1996, Manuel has steered his country from near bankruptcy to steady growth. There's a long way to go. Around one-third of South Africans still live on $2 a day or less. At the same time, Manuel has also helped transform how the rich world views the poor one. Globalization has given new status to places like Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa, but the institutions that manage the global economy - the U.N., the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund - still reflect the world as it was at the end of World...
...were a doctor and your patient had major cardiovascular and lung problems, prescribing an aspirin ... might make him feel better, but would it solve the problem?" At the G-20, the developing world will look to Manuel to speak for them, as he often does. The humbled leaders of rich nations are likely to listen. "There's not a single finance minister in the rich world today that will not take a call from Trevor Manuel," says Pippa Green, author of the Manuel biography Choice, Not Fate...
...stake is the control of disputed territories. Kurds say they are reclaiming areas like the oil-rich city of Kirkuk that was theirs until Saddam Hussein forcibly removed them from it. Arabs say the land wasn't Kurdish to begin with. In the meantime, Kurdish peshmerga militia forces, which operate independently of Baghdad and answer to Kurdistan's regional government, have steadily pushed south of their United Nations-delineated border into contested zones...
...sporadic bursts, and every drum fill thrashes the camera like an earthquake. The inspired music is matched by a truly inspired story: Lil’ Wayne used to have a high school crush who, in an unprecedented move, refused his advances. Well now Lil’ Wayne is rich and famous and she’s been left by her boyfriend to raise their child alone. The child is probably ugly. So years later, after “Tha Carter” tops the charts and Lil’ Wayne sweeps the Grammy’s, she shows...
...presence of a dilapidated van, there is a lot we’ve seen already. Arkin’s grandfather character appears to have risen from the dead to star in yet another film, although this time it is he and not Greg Kinnear who is hooked on get-rich-quick schemes. Even the storyline follows the same arc as its predecessor. So which film deserves the title of “Sunshine?”Surprisingly, the parallels between the two films work. Big Beach may be a one-trick pony, but the trick is excellent...