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...TIME: Is there a sense in which, if you're trying to avoid a genocide, then there has to be some sacrifices in freedom? For instance, not allowing people to incite ethnic hatred. Is Rwanda free, or free within limits right now? Kagame: I think there is a lot of freedom, and with time, it is only increasing. But if people expected us to start from 100%, and I don't know where that exists anyway, even in the countries that come to give us lessons. But for us, first of all we have to create institutions, laws, we have...
...struggle between Hutus from the south and Hutus from the north. This had nothing to do with the Tutsis. So we looked at this and said there are many things that can create problems. First: ethnicities. Second: power. We need to put institutions and structures in place that we avoid exclusion of any kind. So power-sharing became one of the pillars of our constitution. And that's how we came to embrace things like consensus-building. We want people to buy into what is being done in the country and feel they are part...
...retard the development of the relationship, extending the honeymoon period and delaying the inevitable friction of integrating lives. "We all do a certain amount of impression management" at the beginning of a romance, says Stafford. "But in a long-distance relationship, you may always have your makeup on. You avoid conflict no matter what...
...further strain overtaxed transportation networks. "We cannot afford this type of congestion," says Anumita Roychowdhury, associate director of the New Delhi-based nongovernmental group Center for Science and Environment. "It's defeating the reason people buy cars: for mobility." Roychowdhury and other environmentalists argue that developing countries should avoid the mistakes made by Europe and the U.S. by concentrating on building public transportation networks rather than new roads. "We don't have to go that full circle," she says. "We know we have alternatives...
...studies, Wansink has determined that there's no point in trying to keep all the applesauce off the big plate. In his book, he advocates acknowledging how powerless we are and then taking steps to create a healthier eating environment: use small plates, keep junk food in inconvenient places, avoid eating directly from a package, be the last one at your table to start eating, and--if his own life is any guide--gross yourself out with piles of refuse in your backseat...