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...agenda. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents agreed that the country's weak infrastructure will seriously challenge its progress. Meanwhile, nearly 60% contended that the government isn't adequately addressing the rich-poor divide, a pressing issue for Singh, whose Congress Party swept into office last year on a wave of votes from the frustrated poor. Still, India has changed radically in the past 60 years?and by the time the U.N. celebrates its 120th anniversary, New Delhi and Beijing may be calling the shots...
...message of abstinence based on religious dogma. "It's been a deliberate government policy to shift the emphasis from ABC to AB," Stephen Lewis, the U.N. Secretary-General's special envoy for hiv/aids in Africa, said last month. Ugandan aids campaigner Beatrice Were agrees: "There is a new wave of stigma ? attached to the use of condoms. Those of us who promote condoms are looked at as immoral people." The Ugandan government says that's nonsense. The Ministry of Health asserts the condom shortage resulted from the discovery last year of a bad batch of Engabu condoms from China...
...casualty of Lukashenko's 11-year authoritarian rule, which was criticized late last month by leaders of other former Soviet republics. They had gathered in Poland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the trade-union movement Solidarity, which led Poland's revolution. That was followed by "a second wave of liberation of Europe. Freedom and democracy will prevail everywhere, including Belarus," said Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of Georgia's rose revolution in 2003, and now the country's President. But the opinions of the outside world matter little to Lukashenko. Late last month, his secret police arrested two visiting Georgian activists...
...fashion statement--and their popularity lasted through the 1960s. But General Mills (as in cereals, not woolens) acquired the brand in 1969 during one of corporate America's periodically insane conglomerate phases and decided to combine Lacoste with another brand, Izod. The company got lucky, riding the preppie fashion wave in the 1980s. Then, desperate for sales growth, Big G cheapened the shirt, reduced the price to $35, and sold it everywhere, even to low-end stores like Wal-Mart. "They ran it into the ground," says Courtney Reeser, managing director of Landor Associates, a brand-consultancy company...
...rebels--local units commanded by al-Qaeda kingpin Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi--from their latest safe haven. But almost as soon as the offensive ended, the cycle of mayhem started anew: two days after the capture of al-Qaeda's stronghold in Tall 'Afar, al-Zarqawi unleashed a retaliatory wave of 11 suicide bombings in Baghdad, killing more than 150 people in the deadliest day of attacks in the capital since the start of the war. Iraq's Defense Minister, Sadoun Dulaimi, responded to the attacks by telling reporters, "I think what is happening is the last breath...