Friday, 03 February 2012 12:27
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 Untangling the return to the compact car
After decades of getting short shrift, compact cars are now poised to outsell their larger rivals in America. What’s driving this change? According to industry analysts, it’s mostly fear: of an inevitable esc [ … ]
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 07:04
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 Maj. Gen. Pecos Kutesa, in his book; Uganda’s Revolution 1979 -1986: How I saw it tells the story of how Kampala fell to then-National Resistance Army rebels commanded by Yoweri Museveni on January 26, 1986. Below is his chapter entitled: The Fall of Kampala, pp237-249. It has been slightly edited d [ … ]
Friday, 20 January 2012 13:01
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 The U.S. unemployment rate sits obstinately above 9 percent. The housing market is still underwater. Consumer confidence stinks, the stock market is schizophrenic, and the big banks have been humbled. To cure this listlessness, the following treatments have been applied: bailouts, stimulus packages, [ … ]
Saturday, 14 January 2012 17:09
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 Title: Screw Business as Usual
Author: Richard Branson
Publisher: Penguin Portfolio; 384 pages
Richard Branson has an enormous head, both anatomically—his dome is sizable—and figuratively: His ego arguably has no rival in contemporary capitalism. Shameless name-dropper though he is, stories he te [ … ]
Friday, 06 January 2012 13:27
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 The ability to switch on this important skill early in life is a predictor of success
For the last decade or so a band of scholars has been trying to cast off the long-accepted “rational agent” theory of economic behavior—the one that says that people, in their economic lives, behave like calculati [ … ]
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 09:09
By Hassan Higenyi
 He does what a photographer cannot: conveys how things smelled and sounded as well as how they looked
Christopher Hitchens visited Uganda in 2006 and wrote on Kony’s LRA war in Northern Uganda in his characteristic style an essay called “Childhood’s End: An African Nightmare”. The essay originally [ … ]
Tuesday, 20 December 2011 12:05
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 Title: Emerging Africa. How 17 Countries are Leading the Way
Author: Steven Radelet
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2011, Pp 169
The thesis of this short book by Radelet rejects the conventional wisdom that treats the entire African continent as a basket case characterised by AIDS, corrup [ … ]
Tuesday, 13 December 2011 13:14
By Lillian A. Aujo
 Writers’ residencies might not have a clear definition but one thing is for sure: they provide a time and place for writers to meet, share ideas, learn from each other, and consequently, write more.
Many writers will attest that their normal schedules allow for little or no time at all to write, s [ … ]
Monday, 05 December 2011 13:21
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 One Day I will write about this place
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
Publisher: Graywolf Press, 272pp (2011)
The cover of Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir, One Day I Will Write About This Place, looks, at first sight, like the image the Ministry of Health likes to use on its posters to warn against the [ … ]
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