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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...
...coming of Christ. I feel sorry for Obama and the intense pressure of expectation this puts on him. Obama may not be the president who leads America and the rest of the world into a fairer, safer and richer age, but I hope he will at least build the road to that age and take the first steps along it. Good luck, Mr. President. Peter Lucas, Launceston, Tasmania...
...despite the winning record, the Crimson has yet to notch a win on the road and has been consistently plagued by penalties. The team will have to find a way to overcome both these weaknesses as well as a large and unfriendly home crowd to get the win tonight when it faces No. 14 Cornell (2-0-2) at the James Lynah Rink in Ithaca...
...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...