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...threat to the investment climate." International firms and investors hope he's right. Ukraine is a promising new frontier for business development. Its economy grew by an impressive 12% last year, helped by strong demand from Russia and China for steel and other commodities that constitute the core of its industry. While that pace may not be sustainable - growth is expected to fall to about 6.5% this year - Ukraine continues to run up sizable trade surpluses. Some big consumer-goods firms, including the Swiss food giant Nestlé, already have plants in the country and are eager to build...
STRENGTHEN THE U.N. It is no use blaming the U.N. for the missteps of recent years. Why are U.N. agencies less operational than they should be? Not because of "U.N. bureaucracy," though that exists, but because the powerful countries fear ceding more authority. Yet U.N. specialized agencies have a core role to play in the ending of poverty. It is time to empower the likes of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), and many others to do the job--on the ground, country by country...
...night dads' meetings in Kanwal, on the New South Wales Central Coast, is that a glass ball is passed around the circle of men, and whoever has the ball has the floor. He may talk for as long as he likes and is free to digress, though at the core of all this venting is a single sentiment: how painful it is to see so little of one's children. The six men who've shown up at the community center this sweltering February evening are a diverse bunch in manner and circumstance, but they're bonded - forever, they...
...Curricular Review passes in its current form, even fewer undergraduates will be prepared for study abroad. The Review’s general education proposals include eliminating the Foreign Cultures Core requirement in favor of a more general distributional requirement in the humanities and allowing undergraduates to complete two semesters of required of language study after their first year. This means that students could easily leave Cambridge with an even shabbier grasp of the language, history, and culture of the foreign country in which they choose to study, making it even more likely that they will take the path of least...
...February 1988, several students from Thernstrom’s fall semester core course Historical Studies A-25, “The Peopling of America,” accused the professor of displaying “racial insensitivity” in the class. One African-American student, Wendi Grantham ’89 (who in her subsequent career as an actress appeared on HBO’s “The Wire” and NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Streets”), told Wiener that she objected to Thernstrom’s syllabus, which...