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...Better Than Nothing In his essay "Do They Know It's Simplistic?" [Dec. 6], Simon Robinson objects to the remake of the Band Aid song Do They Know It's Christmas? because it "reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them." He notes that most Africans are not starving and that democracy has begun to take hold. I agree with Robinson's point that the song draws an out-of-date picture of Africa, but in a time when egoism has become a new lifestyle, we should acknowledge...
...your main course, head to the shopping district near the Caravelle Hotel for another savory delight - on Nguyen Thiep street, you'll find hawkers selling banh goi. This spicy pastry pillow, also 30?, is filled with minced pork, deep-fried while you wait, and served in a newspaper wrapper...
...commentary "Do They Know It's Simplistic?" [Dec. 13], Simon Robinson criticizes the remake of the Band Aid song Do They Know It's Christmas? Robinson objects to the song because it "reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them." He notes that most Africans are not starving and that democracy has begun to take hold. I agree with Robinson's point that the song draws an out-of-date picture of Africa, but in a time when egoism has become a new lifestyle, we should acknowledge every...
...faith," says an adviser. "Being persecuted is not always a bad thing." Some of it may be learned. He has hated the political echo chamber ever since he watched insiders he viewed as self-preserving and backbiting carve up his father's Administration. When you're a lie-in-wait politician like Bush, who has gained so much from being underestimated, absorbing criticism toughens your skin and eases the wait for the coming reward. "There's no victory for Bush that is sweeter," says an aide, "than the one he was told he couldn't have...
...help. Band Aid has been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right question asked of Muslims in Sudan. But my gripe is about the way the song reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them. In 1984 Do They Know It's Christmas? did a lot of good for the people of Ethiopia, and for that it should be praised. But it also left another, perhaps more powerful legacy: the image of Ethiopia as a land "where...