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...attempts to catch up. In recent years, for example, the number of mobile-phone subscribers in Africa has soared by over 50% a year. But Africa's dubious reputation is a huge obstacle to the development it needs. After all, who wants to invest in a place where they suspect the game is rigged...
...critics say the plans are mere proxies for affirmative action, serving no purpose other than to up minority representation among students. That makes them constitutionally suspect, argue the critics, a charge that could also be made against the various alternatives open to public school districts...
...Analysts suspect that the rocket attack last week and the deadly suicide bombing threatens to revive the traditionally volatile Lebanon-Israel border as a theater of conflict. UNIFIL's leading troop contributing nations are France, Italy and Spain. The three powerful European countries agreed last summer to provide the military backbone to a beefed up UNIFIL. But that resolve will likely wane fast if their soldiers find themselves under regular attack in south Lebanon...
...Indeed, he's done so much that I sometimes suspect there's more than one Roger Ebert. And now I may have proof. The Amazon sites in the U.S., France, Japan and China list Roger Ebert as the author of a German economics treatise, Die Zustandigkeit Der Tarifvertragsparteien Zum Abschlub Von Verbands- Und Firmentarifvertrag (which translates as "The competence of the Rate of Collective Agreements to the conclusion of federation and firm collective agreements"). Roger is expert in many fields, but Ebert could be someone else...
...Ahmadzai. "They are bombarding villages because they hear the Taliban are there. But this is not the way, to bomb and kill 20 people for one Taliban. This is why people are losing hope and trust in the government and the internationals." Like many Afghans, Ahmadzai is starting to suspect a more sinister meaning behind the recent spate of civilian deaths."The Americans can make a mistake once, twice, maybe three times," he says. "But 20, 30 times? I am not convinced that they are doing this without intention...