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...powerful figures who, like Mugabe, led their nations to independence from colonial rule but then turned into despots--to go quietly into the night. Zimbabwe's turn, says Tsvangirai, is long overdue. Speaking to TIME by phone from an undisclosed location in Zimbabwe, he said, "We need to shift from focusing on our independence and start focusing on our prosperity and freedom...
Date My House--and HGTV's Sleep On It, which has essentially the same premise--points up the shift in power between buyers and sellers. During the housing boom, it was the buyers who were afraid they might have to date (i.e., rent) forever. Your house was a coy Victorian maiden with eager suitors queuing up in the parlor. Now it's Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, facing squalor and destitution should it fail to find a suitable match. It's a contestant on The Bachelor, competing with a crowd of others and pining for a private date...
With the change in the psychology of home-owning--from the house as shelter to the house as investment, retirement vehicle and personal ATM--came a shift in home shows' focus. Out of fashion went renovation programs like This Old House, about restoring details and loving a home for its character. In came playing the real estate market. Sell This House!, My House Is Worth What? and many more flattered the smug certainty of homeowners and speculators that their home equity would shoot endlessly up like shares of Google. HGTV, TLC and their ilk may not have created the real...
...points system marks a positive shift toward limiting UK immigration in order to solve problems among immigrants already in Britain. The points system is a departure from the endless revision of anti-discrimination acts—namely, the 1965 Race Relations Act recently expanded to include discrimination against religion and beliefs. Most importantly, the change reflects a realization that socioeconomic problems for some immigrant groups are more complicated, costly, and permanent than policy makers previously supposed...
...nationalists fought for our independence, and they played that part gallantly. But today we need a new phase of democratic leadership. We do recognize the role the independence fighters played in winning our land from the colonialists - but they have run the country down. We need to shift from focusing on our independence, to start focusing on our prosperity and freedom...