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...income to 65 million Southeast Asians. These kinds of water controversies could spark ugly international disputes. Security experts have warned of flash points along the Nile, the Jordan, the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Mekong. As long ago as 1995, the then World Bank vice president Ismael Serageldin predicted: "If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water...
...University Marshal Samuel P. Huntington, Kerry $250 Weatherhead University Professor Rosabeth Kanter, Class of 1960 Kerry $250 Prof. of Business Administration David R. Mittelman, Bond Manager, Weld $1000 Harvard Management Matthew T. Ozug '00, Kerry $225 Undergraduate Hal S. Scott, Nomura Professor of Weld $500 International Financial Systems Mona Serageldin, Adjunct Weld $250 Professor of Urban Planning Howard H. Stevenson, Sarofim-Rock Weld $1000 Professor of Business Administration Source: Federal Election Commision
...World Bank's Serageldin draws a fascinating graph. The vertical y line represents bonding -- quite literally the ties that bind a society together. The horizontal x axis represents options and opportunities -- freedom. Each society and each individual must make a trade-off, represented by an oblique line that angles up between the x and y coordinates. Someone who opts for traditional social bonds loses opportunities, but someone who chooses total freedom risks losing the social ties that give his life meaning. The U.S. and other developed countries rank high on options and opportunity, low on social bonds. Traditional societies like...
...fields at Yamoussoukro, Houphouet's native village: the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, which cost some $175 million, a gesture of lifeless grandiosity. Amid the grazing goats and the lagoons, the basilica looks like an ill-shapen mushroom, massive from a distance and strangely sterile up close. Ismail Serageldin, director of the technical department at the World Bank, observed during a recent Cairo lecture dealing with culture shock that there were "certain symbols of a society dissociated from its own people." The most spectacular of all, said Serageldin, "may be the basilica in the Ivory Coast...
Despite 30 years of failure in Africa, many of the social ties still exist. How long they can endure is another question. "There is a mood of Afro- pessimism," says Serageldin. "It is sustained by press images of famine and slaughter that tend to swamp the positive achievements...