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...opening day of the World Economic Forum on Africa, and Presidents, finance ministers, tycoons, bankers and philanthropists from 42 countries had descended on Cape Town to discuss the future of the continent. To welcome them, South Africa's President, Thabo Mbeki, was hosting a dinner at which he would talk of his nation's rich potential. The free, first-come, first-served tickets for the meal had gone fast. Unabashed, an African executive in the queue beside me tried to bribe his way in. "I'll leave the money here," he declared. "Just tell me how much...
...Barrasso, who writes the newspaper column "Keeping Wyoming Healthy" and is a familiar voice for health advice on statewide TV, distributed apples and oranges at a day-long forum in Casper on June 19 where the state central committee whittled the field from 31 to three. He was joined as a finalist for the Senate seat by former State Treasurer Cynthia Lummis and Cheyenne attorney Tom Sansonetti. The governor also invited each to meet with him privately to discuss the central concerns of Wyoming voters...
...crackdown began after some 400 parents of children who they suspected had been kidnapped published an anguished letter on the popular Internet forum Tianya Club on June 7. The letter said they had managed to rescue some 40 children before running into stiff resistance from the local authorities in the northeastern province of Shanxi, where most of the kilns were situated. The letter sparked a storm on the Internet, and by June 13 a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party expressed concern about the issue. The police action soon followed...
...with the full authorization of the three House “masters” in the Quad, the Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF) and the Association of Black Harvard Women (ABHW) sponsored an early-afternoon picnic and field day on the Quad lawn. Simultaneously, a number of their non-black fellow students exchanged e-mails expressing annoyance about the students allegedly damaging the lawn and doubt that they were Harvard students with a right to be there in the first place. Then, one of the complainants called the police. That a student gathering of a similar nature...
...group that might suffer most from doing away with the G-8 is the protesters, who would lose the premier platform for voicing their muddled dissent. And maybe that wouldn't be such a good thing. Beneath the confused thinking are some real issues that deserve a public forum. For example, the man on the go-go stilts, Berlin teacher Tony Mueller, 33, is campaigning for less restrictive policies for asylum seekers in Germany. And maybe someday the baby-floating artists at Dropping Knowledge will find a masterpiece more effective in convincing people to care about Africa...