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...seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made them. Maybe the genre, which dominated TV drama in the '50s and '60s, is just too much of its time to thrive in a more gray-hatted era. HBO aired three seasons of Deadwood, a dark and poetic look at the Darwinian life of a mining camp, but that was less a remake than a rebuttal...
...looking at this as part of the problem of the aid industry." Shikwati is a leading advocate in an emerging movement that wants to see foreign development assistance - and some emergency help - stopped entirely in Africa. He says foreign aid fosters corruption and a sense of dependence on Western donors. In some countries, leaders have also been accused of steering development projects to areas where people have voted for them while opposition areas get nothing, Shikwati says. (See pictures of Africa's AIDS crisis...
...approached the end of high school I wrote endless letters in the hope of finding a position in a national park in Africa. I ended up spending nine months living in western Zambia in a national park at the age of 17. It was about the size of Switzerland, and it had about 20 people living in it. It was a wonderful introduction to the bush, and since then I have been traveling to Africa almost every year. I went to Oxford University and studied zoology because it was a great way to be able to continue going to really...
...moved shortly thereafter to western Michigan. I learned how to spell during those elementary school years, thanks to the last names of my classmates—they were either Bosnian refugees (the humanitarian-minded evangelicals of the Upper Midwest had lobbied at the time to accept those fleeing the conflict in the Balkans) or the blonde-haired, blue-eyed descendants of Dutch settlers...
When Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was convicted in December of subverting the state after he helped organize a democracy petition, the only protesters gathered outside the Beijing courtroom were foreign diplomats waiting to tell a pack of Western journalists that their governments officially condemned the verdict...