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...next meeting, to take place next month, will focus on specific plans for improving the Holton Street Corridor, which stretches from the Brighton Mills shopping center on Western Ave. to the Mass. Turnpike, Shen said...
...government. The story of his struggle to do so, told in Michela Wrong's new book It's Our Turn to Eat, provides a rare insider's look at corruption in a developing society. It also shines an unflattering light on the complacency of some major Western aid donors, whose preference for pumping money into the continent may, the author argues, be perpetuating the problem...
...military equipment - outstripping even the U.S. in that period - to more than 80 developing nations on every populated continent. Russian arms manufacturers have cut deals for everything from helicopters to tanks and rifles. Among eager customers have been North Korea, Iran, China and Venezuela, which are barred from buying Western weaponry under various sanction regulations. The embargoes have had the effect of recruiting new clients for Moscow. "Venezuela's jets used to be [American] F-16s," says Richard Grimmett, who tracks global arms sales for the Congressional Research Service in Washington. "Well guess what? We ain't selling squat...
...This time, though, the Western world took a bait it had set for itself. Ahmadinejad’s assertions that Israel is a “cruel and repressive racist regime” were made at a United Nations conference on racism in Geneva that the United States, along with the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Italy, had already decided to boycott over concerns that Ahmadinejad would abuse it in precisely this manner. That political leaders and journalists are now focusing nonstop on the inflammatory remarks indicates that Western countries’ decision not to attend...
...boycotts rarely address root political problem and often actually aggravate a situation by drawing attention to what is being reacted against. Ignoring and avoiding Ahmadinejad will never make him go away or blunt his rhetoric. Instead of boycotting, the U.S. and other Western nations should have attended the conference and expressed their own thoughts on problems of racism and ways of combating them...