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...Bank as a whole there appears to be an institutional culture often resistant to fighting corruption," says Keith Luse, a senior staff member on Lugar's committee. Though primarily associated with national-security issues, Wolfowitz has experience with the developing world: he was Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under President Reagan and served three years as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia. Longtime associates say that he has had an interest in development for years, and sees the Bush Administration's push for democracy in the Middle East and the goal of improving living standards...
...trade winds. With China's economic engine requiring ever more energy, the country is damming a significant part of its length of the Mekong River, threatening fishing and transportation in the five nations downstream. In 1998, China banned some domestic logging to protect its dwindling forests, but the Asian giant's appetite for disposable chopsticks and plywood furniture has hardly abated. Log imports--second only to the U.S.'s--more than quadrupled from 1996 to 2003, according to the World Wildlife Fund. China's appetite for resources extends even to the Amazon. By the middle of next year, Brazil...
African-American students comprise 9.2 percent of the incoming freshman class, a slight increase from 8.9 percent in the class of 2008. Asian Americans make up 18.7 percent of the class of 2009, down from 19.9 percent. Latino students constitute 7.4 percent of the incoming class, falling from last year’s figure of 8.8 percent. Native Americans hold 0.9 percent of the spots, slightly down from 1.1 percent last year...
Within a month, the banjo-playing duo were a fixture on the steps of Weld Hall and Widener Library, their pluck entertaining Asian tourists and anyone else who would listen...
...years later, Gigot lambasted Summers for failing to anticipate the currency crisis that rocked East Asian economies. “Mr. Summers...helped to kill an all-Asia rescue that might have been an early firebreak,” Gigot wrote. “But this would have prevented Mr. Summers from playing the role of a modern ‘Gen. Douglas MacArthur’ in Asia...though this is unfair to MacArthur, who had a smaller...