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...paper representing the best education available. The speeches and writings that surrounded this event were filled with endless messages of hope, repetitive retrospection, and overstretched metaphors. Many of us were reduced to sobbing shells of human beings, but some of us endured the pomp and circumstance and lived to tell the tale...
...International Political Economy at the KSG, wrote on his blog that Zoellick’s belief in free trade may limit his ability to aid developing nations. “[Zoellick’s] take on the reforms needed by developing countries remains, as far as I can tell, quite conventional, circa 1980, with a splash of ‘augmented’ Washington Consensus thinking added in,” he wrote. “One needs to go beyond these old-fashioned ideas that pit states against markets if one wants to make progress against global poverty...
...what sounds like close-quarter fighting is coming from the edges of the camp. What the army has been doing is tightening the perimeter of the camp the last few days. As far as I can tell from my position, the army is softening up the camp with artillery fire before sending in commando units for street-to-street fighting. When I arrived today, there was a long column armored personnel carries and armored fighting vehicles. They were manned by special forces and looked like they were waiting to deploy inside the camp once the artillery shelling lifts...
There is a lot of heavy machine gun fire, and it is hard to tell how much of that is the army's rounds going in or Fatah al-Islam's rounds coming out. Some local eyewitnesses told me that Fatah al-Islam attacked an army position earlier in the morning, either trying to push the army back or making a break for it. Three mortar rounds apparently fired by Fatah al-Islam landed in the neighboring village of Hamra this morning. There is a lot of sniping going on from inside the camp. Any vantage point where...
...relatively small Dutch TV network, targets a youth audience, frequently using shock tactics. Recent shows have included on-air drug use, in an educational program on illicit substances, and a documentary in which young people facing death from incurable diseases tell about their lives and the social prejudices they encounter...