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...groups have threatened a campaign to discourage travel to the Maldives, which depends on tourist dollars for 20% of its gross domestic product. "The whole thing was a real eye opener for Gayoom," says one Western analyst, who speculates that the President feared his legacy of transforming these poverty-stricken islands into a world-class holiday destination was under threat...
...name suggests, A Mighty Fortress does not ignore Germany’s turbulent and war-stricken past. Rather, the book presents a more substantial perspective. Unifying Germany’s history before 1930 with that after 1945, Ozment does not neglect the white elephant in between...
...great slabs of satire on the nature of monarchy, banking and literature, Victory turns on her journey - and what a journey it turns out to be. "Any fool can rob his enemy," she says, caught stealing from a band of fellow Puritans. "Where's the victory in that?" Grief-stricken and raped before becoming the pregnant confidante of Devonshire and comforter of the King, Mrs Bradshaw embodies "the wisdom of compliance...
...Kamiyacho station, 11 minutes after the strange man had boarded, commuters panicked ... 'I saw several dozen people on the platform who had either collapsed or were on their knees unable to stand up,' recalls Nobuo Serizawa, a photographer ... Said Kiyo Arai, a 22-year-old government employee who was stricken ... : 'We're just innocent, ordinary people. It frightens me to think how vulnerable...
...India's Poor, Still Left Behind Thank you for the article "Subcontinental Divide," on the Indian economy, which is definitely experiencing a boom [Feb. 23]. As you reported, India's middle class is exploding in size, but unfortunately, there are millions of poverty-stricken people for whom the progress is meaningless. Much of India lacks even minimal infrastructure, and conditions are deplorable. Are the "happy new capitalists" enthusiastic enough to undertake developmental work in needy regions? The population growth in our country has us lagging behind in prehistoric stages of development. However much the government tries to tout India...