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Visitors to London's British Museum this summer may feel they've stepped into some sort of parallel world. Mango and banyan trees are growing in front of the building's imposing gray columns, while lotus flowers bob in a pond under drizzling London rain. The foreign flora - provided by...
The Pendulum Swings The Islamic revival in Bosnia is classic human nature [June 15]. The Bosnian Muslims had a mainly secular sense of identity but were nevertheless brutalized during the Balkan civil war due to their religion, for there is little else to differentiate Croats, Serbs and Bosniaks. In reaction...
But the latest Berlusconi tidbit is potentially the most damaging. On June 17, investigators in the southern city of Bari confirmed they were carrying out a criminal investigation into allegations that businessman Giampaolo Tarantini had hired prostitutes to attend several Berlusconi bashes, although Berlusconi himself is not under investigation.
The company also began signing partnerships with Liberia's tens of thousands of small rubber farmers. Under the deals, BRE builds roads and bridges to the plantations, removes old rubber trees and pays the farmers for them, smooths the land, replants it with new saplings grown at a BRE nursery...
Liberia is far from out of the woods. Violent crime is rising. Johnson Sirleaf admits to "a capacity problem" in the professional classes, including government. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, so effective in postapartheid South Africa, has seen little of either in Liberia. Property rights remain confused. Concessions granted under...