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...University, questions whether the Nile Basin countries can be trusted to protect the environment in their quest for rapid development. "If it is done in the framework of sustainable development, then it would be O.K.," he says. "But if every country goes ahead, doing as it likes, natural systems tend to kick back." The World Bank's Grey says that coordinating development through the NBI will actually help the environment. If each country went its own way, he says, the inevitable duplication would damage the river a lot more than one region-wide scheme. The World Bank, he says...
...COMMON IS GREEN LIVING IN THE LUXURY BUSINESS? It's not common at all. That's why people tend to focus on me. But it's the truly modern way to address accessories?it's the only new thing out there...
...interview last week he is aware that the current round of hires might one day depart as well. “The challenge of Harvard Management is to have a pipeline,” he said. “I also think that at some point people tend to spin out. We are going into this with our eyes wide open, and as long as we can get five to ten years of excellent returns on the endowment from each group, then our job would have been done well.” —Staff writer Cyrus M. Mossavar...
...sources of Bush's woes - mostly fueled by Iraq but also including high oil prices and stymied policies like the partial privatization of Social Security - aren't likely to change until the policies themselves either change or yield better results. The staff turnovers that lead to new policies tend to work best. Those that just change names don't. In the case of Reagan, the arrival of Washington fixer Kenneth Duberstein as chief of staff coincided with a push for arms control with Mikhail Gorbachev and new initiatives like welfare reform. In Carter's case, no policies really changed...
...Newspapers tend to litter the tabletops at eateries on campus a bit more these days, as people keep up with the details of the now notorious rape case that emerge daily. Over the last month, the campus has played host to local and national news stations that parked satellite trucks next to dorms for days, and television crews set up on the main quad every morning...