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...experience in Botswana has firmly cemented his position on the question, Is business better for Africa than aid? "I'm anti-aid," he says. "It's brought more problems than it's solved." Donors reward bad governments, he argues. "Where Africa is coming right and is on an upward trend, that attracts business. Where it's doing badly, that attracts aid." Oppenheimer consults regularly with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who leads a growing body of opinion on the continent that has come to the same conclusion. "In the last 50 years, you've spent $400 billion in aid to Africa...
When your currency is in the declining part of the cycle, as the dollar has been since 2002, that puts upward pressure on inflation, spooks investors and generally leaves people feeling cranky. It eventually gives an important boost to the economy by stimulating exports, but that takes years. During an upswing, by contrast, everything feels good. But it's the downswing that makes the upswing possible...
...Saturdays=Youth” succeeds splendidly, just barely hesitating to spoil moments of glowing artificial beauty with its gluttonous flare for the baroque.But make no mistake—it’s the beauty that stands out here. “Highway of Endless Dreams” builds steadily upward from a tantalizing guitar progression into an electronic sea that swirls with waves of radio noise and a computer-processed chorus. On “Graveyard Girl,” Gonzales resurrects the perfect moment of the music he reveres. The choruses are so sublimely immersed in living sonics?...
...would seem that with all the opportunities available to Harvard students, and all the incentives to use a Harvard degree to give back to the community, more graduates would choose to go into these public sector jobs, regardless of a few years of low-pay. But, if the recent upward trajectory in HLS is indicative of upcoming trends, there may be a reversal of this corporate pattern, and possibly an increase in the number of Harvard grads looking not just for money, but for fulfilment as well...
Jewish Interests The Vatican's relations with the Jews have been on a steady upward curve since the 1960s, but there is occasional turbulence. Most recently some Jewish groups were upset that Benedict did not excise the passage about converting the Jews from the Latin version of the Mass. As if to make up, Benedict has scheduled several Jewish events this week. At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday he will address Jews along with representatives of other religions at Washington's John Paul II Center. On Friday at 5:00 p.m. he will become the first Pope to visit...