Word: roading
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...Foreign aid, of course, isn't an altruistic enterprise. When Japan promises money for, say, a road in Africa, Japanese companies tend to profit from the lucrative contracts. But Japanese aid is about more than just helping Japanese businesses. Just as some in American foreign-policy circles believe that the U.S. has a mission to spread democracy around the globe, an increasing number of Japanese are keen to seed the world with their ideals. One key principle is an ability to modernize without losing its roots. "The history of Japan in modern times," says Kazuo Ogoura, president of the Japan...
Grin and bear it. In its first of a series of four road games, the No. 18 Harvard men’s hockey team (4-2-1, 4-2-1 ECAC) had to settle for a 3-3 overtime tie against Brown (0-4-2, 0-2-2 ECAC) last night at the Meehan Auditorium. “We came out and gave a good effort tonight,” senior co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get the two points we set out for there.” Fraser...
Harvard’s Class of 2012 was supposed to wait.Freshmen don’t come into their first game, playing on the road, and drop 17 points on the home team.Freshmen don’t bury dagger threes to end any threat of a comeback.Freshmen don’t pound on the blocks like they were a baby Barkley.Fortunately for the Crimson, this is not your normal group of rookies.Message to the Ivy League: Tommy Amaker’s highly touted recruiting class is for real.With three freshmen starting—guards Max Kenyi and Oliver McNally and power...
...Senate hearing rooms or staff briefings. Daschle has seen, as few in Washington have, the particular toll that the broken system has taken on rural America. When I went to South Dakota 15 years ago to do a story on the problem, Daschle drove me around himself, spreading a road map on the front seat of his car and taking me to places where poverty rates were high, people were older and in poor health, and where hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and doctors were disappearing. But they were also places where people had an acute skepticism of anything that came...
...pirates, largely from lawless coastal Somali towns, have basically turned the heavily plied route through the Gulf of Aden and into the Indian Ocean into a toll road. But as the pirates are becoming more brazen, the international community's patience is running out. "Right now, it's just cheaper to pay the ransom," says Zinni, who led the pullout of U.N. troops from Somalia in 1995. "But just wait until a cruise ship gets taken down and there's some sort of miscalculation and a bunch of people get killed...