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...priest who has lived in the monastery on the island for almost three decades. That sentiment is shared by the millions of people who live along the 6,695 km of the world's longest river. From its origins in Ethiopia and in the rolling green hills around Lake Victoria in central Africa, the Nile and its many tributaries loop through 10 countries across half the length of the continent. Egypt, which has viewed the Nile as something like its private possession for centuries, has long drawn far more from the river than its southern neighbors. But ambitious new development...
...power factories and houses, say the dams' advocates, is a quicker way to reduce poverty than pursuing small-scale geothermal or solar projects, or keeping the river for tourists. "We value the [Bujagali] falls, but development is about making options and choices," says Kahangire from his office overlooking Lake Victoria in Entebbe, Uganda. Some in the rich world agree. In his 2004 book, The World's Banker, on former World Bank president James Wolfensohn, journalist Sebastian Mallaby argues that NGOs often do more harm than good to the world's poor. Uganda's National Association of Professional Environmentalists, he wrote...
Immediately the audience is captured by this world that Gilmour, the author of the engaging biography about Queen Victoria’s viceroy “Curzon: Imperial Statesman,” expertly recreates. He begins by talking about the “empress of India” Queen Victoria, who “never went east of Berlin or south of San Sebastian...
...Gilmour devotes just a small portion of the book to Victoria and Disraeli. The Indian Civil Service (ICS) becomes the preliminary focus of Gilmour’s book, which includes letters, pictures, and diagrams that encompass the British experience within their precious jewel of India...
...with the press. So in addition to traditional Republican communicators, Bush?s searchers are considering at least one member of the press - Tony Snow of Fox News Radio and former host of "Fox News Sunday." Snow is an informal finalist, according to these people. Bush insiders say to watch Victoria Clarke, formerly Bush?s Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. During the administration of President George H.W. Bush, she worked with Bolten in the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. She was press secretary to President George H.W. Bush?s reelection campaign, and earlier had been press secretary...