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...profit was $370 million, making it what was believed to be the most successful company in the continent outside South Africa. The more stunning figure is its subscriber base - which grew from less than 20,000 in 2000 to about 10 million today, upending the conventional wisdom that sub-Saharan Africans, especially in places like Kenya where income averages out to a dollar a day, had no interest in a mobile phone...
...financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., for being too timid in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. While more caution could have helped avert the problem, Summers said, the same impulse can be destructive after the fact. Summers also attacked the White House, saying that the Bush administration has given “insufficient weight to the interests of the middle class...
...team seemed unaffected by the particularly cold, windy, and wet conditions. “We’re pretty used to it. he UMass game was a lot colder than this, just in terms of the unrelenting rain for the whole game,” Duboe said of the sub-freezing temperature. “It’s warm for us right now.”Ultimately, Tillman attributed the team’s success to solid preparation by the coaching staff—his assistant coaches, Anthony Kelly and Kevin Warne—combined with the young team?...
...with an ironwork trellis. At the center of the trellis, a lone Native American stares out enigmatically from a shield, a star over his right shoulder. Above his head a disembodied hand clutches a sword. Below, engraved on a banner, is the inscription, “ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,” a Latin phrase meaning, “by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty...