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TIME: What are some ways in which it does go wrong? jones: There are examples of companies being pressured by local communities to build a hospital or town hall in exchange for the right to build a pipeline. But the truth will out ... If you start doing those things, at some point you get pilloried for it. If [projects] don't have value or a strategic purpose or if they are slightly cynical, then those are the things that it's absolutely right to criticize...
Despite a recent three-month jihadist uprising, a nine-month street campaign by the Iranian opposition to bring down the U.S.-backed government and rumors of war swirling all around, it's business as usual in Beirut's packed nightclubs. The good-looking people in this good-time town have long partied to a sound track of popping champagne corks, clacking high heels and the generic beat of computer-generated dance music--whatever it takes to drown out the beat of Lebanon's continual crises. But for a relatively small number of Beirut hipsters, there's another sound track...
...wanted to capture the way things were in midcentury America in a small town in the Rockies. We were the heirs to the optimism of the pioneers, who believed that if they kept going, it would be a better...
What are the advantages of growing up in small-town America...
...growing up, my mother worked for the police department, and I think every patrol car in town was following me. I think that's a symbol of how the community as a whole watched over children. And in a small town, everything you did was noticed. If you won an award, your picture would be in the paper right alongside John Foster Dulles...