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...engine of change still has too many misfiring cylinders. Though provincial governments have been given more freedom, they haven't passed it on to entrepreneurs. Foreign investors are welcome, but corruption devours profits. Even longtime investors complain that the rules seem to keep shifting. Ho Chi Minh City's Export Processing Zone Authority lured foreign companies on the basis of proffered tax-free status--and then announced an 8% business tax. Economists warn that without a new round of reforms soon, Vietnam's progress will end. But the impressive gains so far may have made many officials overconfident. Boasts...
...what about the women's studies program? Its members often complain about the dominance of the "white male" in the academic curriculum. Yet in Rand they have a woman who has influenced and continues to influence the lives of millions, who many consider the most powerful advocate of values our century has seen and who ran away from the clutches of Communism at a young age and devoted her life to fighting for values she believed in. This woman--a paradigm of strength, independence and integrity--is ignored...
Schumacher said if second-hand smoke becomes aproblem, his group will likely complain...
...There was the bearded Italian whom police found wandering in the hills around Bethlehem, dressed in a sack, with cloth bags for shoes and New Testament in hand, completely unaware that it was snowing, confident that he was Jesus Christ. And the angry German who phoned police to complain that his hotel's kitchen staff had prevented him from preparing the Last Supper. And the naked, sword-wielding man who ran through the Old City on what he explained to arresting officers was a mission to heal the blind...
...despite threats that such action couldtrigger a Palestinian civil war. "It's an impossible mission", says TIME Israel reporter Jamil Hamad. "Gaza is overcrowded, the people give terrorists cover, and the PLO police are not qualified to do the job." The mood is so tense, says Hamad, thatPalestinians now complain publiclythat PLO officers are mistreating them and abusing children. One furious Palestinian mother told Hamad today that -- unlike in the days of Israeli control -- many of those arrested are jailed without having seen a courtroom: "Mr. Arafat, you will pay."Campaign '96 File