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...than we ever supposed. What are your priorities as Prime minister? We knew the country was in bad shape; we didn't know just how bad it was. We have to tackle the moral and financial degradation of the state - widespread corruption, shadow businesses, a stagnating economy - right away. Normal people who want to invest in Ukraine are scared to come. This fear must be overcome. The government's opponents say that your reprivatization process will hurt investment in ukraine. All the properties that were commercially valuable were brazenly carved up by [President Leonid Kuchma's] entourage over the last...
...continent. The government admits its problem and is making inroads against the disease with help from outside. Although more than one in three Botswanan adults has the aids virus, more than 35,000 (including nine of the 12 contestants) now take antiretroviral drugs (ARVS), meaning they should live relatively normal - and long - lives. "For many people it has become a manageable chronic condition," says Brad Ryder, communications manager at the African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnership, a drug therapy program funded by U.S. drugs titan Merck and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
...purification systems, and medical clinics. Last year, Tokyo sent 600 troops to Iraq to support Bush's Coalition of the Willing, although they are based in relatively placid Samawah and are protected by Australian and Dutch contingents. In Japan, this is referred to as a process of becoming a "normal" country?one that isn't just focused on manufacturing and corporate profits, or utterly dependent for its safety and diplomacy on its big brother...
...would just rather be dependent on ourselves,” he says. “Most businesses aren’t like a bunch of kids living in a house, doing whatever they want, not waking up at a normal time, not going into an office, hiring people by, like, bringing them into your house and letting them chill with you for a while and party with you and smoke with...
...possible, simply to avoid “shortchanging” his college experience. Hearing this, I couldn’t help but wonder: what did it mean when opportunities were no longer individual delights, but merely boxes to be checked triumphantly off of our to-do lists? Was it normal to feel guilty for not taking advantage of everything? At a place like Harvard, where every day has the potential to be great, every moment to be life-changing, it seems the greatest fear we have is the fear of missing...