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...right direction. Foreign debt is nearing $13 billion, compared to a GDP of around $10 billion. Industrial production continues to fall. Unemployment is at 35%. Serbs have tried and failed three times to elect a President (not enough people bothered to turn out) while the current coalition government's ceaseless infighting has "destroyed people's faith in the reform process," says one senior diplomat. All this is proving fertile ground for Tomislav Nikolic, the grim-faced Serbian Radical Party campaigner who is standing in for Vojislav Seselj while the boss prepares his defense. A former cemetery manager, Nikolic is traveling...
...result, Mountains Beyond Mountains is much more than a reserved journalistic account of Farmer’s career in medicine and public policy. When Kidder writes of Farmer’s ceaseless push for a “preferential option for the poor,” for equity in health care and for the eradication of HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis, he also tells of his own thoughts on Farmer—both personally and professionally. While all but one of Kidder’s previous books have been written in the third person, Mountains Beyond Mountains has lengthy first...
...book, Saudi Arabia: The Ceaseless Quest for Security, was published in 1985 by Harvard University Press...
...Chef Ann's informal approach is but a morsel of the Tanjong Jara's relaxed, and relaxing, charm. Some super-luxury enclaves suffocate guests with services and ceaseless, ultimately intrusive, efforts to make sure everything is just right. Here, save the odd cold towel or glass of ice water, guests are left peacefully, blessedly, alone and thus free to appreciate some of Asia's most stunning scenery. Built in 1980, the resort expertly re-creates the architectural splendor of the timber-wrought palaces of the region's 17th century sultans. The result?which won the prestigious Aga Khan Award...
Those experiences taught Saddam that politics was a no-holds-barred struggle for survival amid a ceaseless threat of plots, feuding and betrayal. He rose swiftly in the Baath Party by specializing in the dirty work of security and soon turned himself into a shaqawah, or man to be feared. "He killed lots of people to get to the top," says Con Coughlin, author of a recent Saddam biography, all the while knowing that "they could get to the top by killing him." According to another biographer, London professor Efraim Karsh, Saddam once told a visitor he could see betrayal...