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...ones." While last week's headlines prompted calls for stronger action against gangs, the government's first reaction was to lash out at the most predictable target. Culture Secretary Kim Howells suggested that rap groups, in particular London's garage collective So Solid Crew, were at least partly to blame. Three of the 30-member band have been arrested on separate gun charges. "Idiots like the So Solid Crew are glorifying gun culture and violence," Howells fumed. Home Secretary David Blunkett suggested holding talks with music industry executives about "what is and what isn't acceptable" in song lyrics...
...really blame chen Xuesong for plowing his life savings into the stock market. It was the late 1990s, and Beijing was breathlessly exhorting mainlanders to buy shares as a way of boosting the economy and their own wealth. In 1999, the People's Daily cheerily declared that stocks would bring "happiness and hope" to the masses, and investors like Chen believed the hype. The 72-year-old retiree from Kunming in Yunnan province dropped $40,000 into stocks, surrounded himself with how-to books on beating the market and rigged up a computer in his bedroom so that he could...
...life in Kenya ? The era of anything goes is gone forever." Making good on those promises will be difficult. Once ranked a middle-income country, Kenya is now a pauper. More than half of Kenyans scrape by on less than a dollar a day. Much of the blame for the country's decline can be pinned on Moi and his Kenya African National Union party (KANU), which ruled, until last week, since independence in 1963. In the early years, under the father of independence President Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya thrived. But since Moi took power following Kenyatta's death...
When WorldCom first owned up to its massive accounting fraud last summer, most observers of the once soaring telecom upstart figured its calls were numbered. Rivals like AT&T and Sprint were happy to close the book on a company they blame as the principal culprit in the telecom bubble--one that had posted curiously high profits that they could never quite seem to match. But six months after its dirty little secret of success was exposed and the company was left for dead, WorldCom is confounding both its critics and its competition--not only refusing to die but showing...
...then there's Israel. Plenty of Arab commentators make frankly ridiculous attempts to blame their region's woes on the Jewish state. Even the otherwise sensible authors of the Arab Human Development Report claim that "Israel's illegal occupation of Arab lands is one of the most pervasive obstacles to security and progress in the region," as if the failure of any sizable Arab nation to build a successful, diversified economy could be laid at the door of the Knesset. Nonetheless, the Bush Administration has not done all that it could to show that its approach to the Israel-Palestine...