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...agreed to a 2.5% ownership stake in the mine for a group of local landowners, although many others say they have been iced out of the deal. "For Chinese and Papua New Guineans, who are from such different cultures, it will naturally take some time for us to truly understand each other, and sometimes it is not easy," says Wu Xuefeng, deputy general manager at Ramu NiCo. "Our proposal to tackle all these challenges is to address them within our overall sustainability development framework, [and] we are glad that we have been improving along the way and that our linkage...
...staying power. "There are more women learning about politics and networking and so [Fukuda] is not alone," Miura says. "We have to start from somewhere." During the election campaign, Fukuda says she was asked by several voters, "What can a young woman like you do?" Her response: "I understand the young part of what they were saying, but the woman part? That is irrelevant...
...certainly understand and respect the fact that different people may have different preferences. But I sincerely doubt that there are many European TIME readers interested enough to justify a story of four pages about a professional boxer from the Philippines who is not widely known to the general public. Dr. Peter Koeppe, BERLIN...
...studied the inequities of apartheid and colonialism and, at 17, joined the ANC. Zuma says it was through stories of the Bhambatha rebellion, during which on June 10, 1906, the British imperial army massacred hundreds of Zulus in Mome Gorge, just below his home town, that he "came to understand and to be angry about colonial oppression." An old-fashioned, almost Victorian outlook remains. He may embrace polygamy - in a nation of millions of single mothers, Zuma calls it socially responsible - but the President disapproves of alcohol and television (both are "killing the nation," he told the teachers' conference...
Harvard spokesperson Kevin Galvin released the following e-mailed statement: “We understand how difficult it must be for John Edward’s [sic] family to cope with such a tragic loss, but we are confident that the care he received at Harvard University Health Services was thorough and appropriate and he was monitored closely by its physicians and allied health specialists. Similar complaints previously have been filed with the Board or [sic] Registration in Medicine, the Board of Registration in Nursing and the Board of Registration in Pharmacy, and in all three instances the complaints were...