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ADOPT A PLAN OF ACTION. The U.N.'s Millennium Development Goals, approved by all of the world's governments at the start of the millennium, are the down payment on ending poverty. The MDGs set out specific targets for cutting poverty, hunger, disease and environmental degradation by 2015 and thereby laid the foundation for eliminating extreme poverty by 2025. The rich and poor countries have solemnly agreed to work toward fulfilling the MDGs. The key is to follow through...
...started on child support, a complex scheme of formulas and exemptions through which, in 2003-04, $A2.19 billion was transferred between parents. High on a long list of complaints is that the ex-wife doesn't have to account for how the money is spent: maybe the latest payment went toward school fees, or maybe it funded gym membership for her and her new boyfriend. Adding insult to injury, the way child support works is that the less contact you have with your children, the more you pay. Due to report back to the government...
...That is utterly ridiculous. The word ‘reparations’ is a common English word used to indicate payment for a wrong,” Kafie wrote in an e-mail. “It can be and has been used in many contexts—including ours—that have nothing to do with race...
...vested interest in holding on to a disproportionate share of the power and resources of the nation they once tyrannized. They are terrorizing the population they falsely claim to represent. The true Iraqi nationalists are those who seek, peacefully and constructively, to build their new nation. Jeff Farkas Munich Payment Due? Your story "what does bush owe the Religious Right?" explored what Christian conservatives want in return for helping re-elect the President [Feb. 7]. I wish America saw Christians as something other than die-hard Bush supporters and Bible-toting fundamentalists condemning to hell gays and pregnant teens...
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