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...styled "dissident" AIDS scientists who believe the disease isn't caused by the HIV virus. Mbeki even put a nationalist spin on his angry retort to those who criticized him for giving credence to discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa as a primarily heterosexual phenomenon that is destined to slash average life expectancy in his region to 47, Mbeki insisted that "as Africans we have to deal with this uniquely African catastrophe" and that simply accepting Western conventional wisdom on AIDS would be "absurd and illogical." Mbeki's remarks, in letter to President Clinton - which administration officials considered so unfortunate...
...chose to practice his art in Europe rather than the raw island paradise of his birth. A parallel account involves Walcott: his boyhood fascination with the reproductions of European masterpieces he found in books, his vision, during a later visit to a Manhattan museum, of an "epiphanic detail," a "slash of pink on the inner thigh/of a white hound" in a painting by Paolo Veronese...
...safe bet that even if the U.S. aid package helped the Colombian military eliminate the FARC from the jungles of the south, Colombia's cocaine crop may yet find its way to the ever-hungry U.S. market. The drug war's greatest successes have been to substantially slash cocaine production in Peru and Bolivia, but Colombian expansion has for the most part filled the shortfall. And even if Colombia was unable to meet the demand of the U.S. market, the simple economics of supply and demand would see the industry establish new production centers elsewhere in the region. "Remember...
...phony and a cutthroat" and cannot wait to take him on. While he doesn't quite know what to make of the Vice President, people close to him say, he has a gut dislike for him. Already you can hear it when he talks about Gore's "slash-and-burn politics": "Mr. Gore, I'm not going to let you get away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore has become a stalking-horse for all those elitist...
Chris Whittle, Edison's founder and CEO, is staking his company's future on its ability to slash administrative costs. For every dollar in a typical school's budget, 20[cents] to 30[cents] goes to administration. Edison spends around 16[cents] and plans to cut that to 8[cents]. "The money we save on central costs goes to the schools, and a portion goes to the bottom line," Whittle says. His goal is a 7%-to-8% profit margin. "If we were simply going to cut overall costs," he notes, "we would not be viable." Whittle puts the magic...