According to Einstein, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So why are we surprised when aspects of government activity, that for decades have failed to change the trajectories of peoples' lives, still don't work? If you were working out how to design quality public services from ground zero, [...]

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Scores of supporters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) converged at the Efua Sutherland Park in Accra Wednesday at a mammoth rally to which leading members of the party impressed on the supporters to eschew complacency and turn out in their numbers and vote.

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Why should you take family portraits outdoors? Besides the potential for beautiful or fun backgrounds, photographing outside provides the opportunity to use natural lighting. If you are a professional photographer or serious enthusiast then you know that the external flash, studio lights and reflectors work to mimic the beauty of natural light.If you are new [...]

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There was quite a bit to be digested within the release buy Ava Duvernay's name quickly got my attention. Duvernay is being lauded at the Third Annual Athena Film Festival, A Celebration of Women and Leadership. Congrats to Ava Duvernay! Check out the press release below for other awardees and more information about this years Film Festival. THE THIRD ANNUAL ATHENA FILM FESTIVAL: A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP Festival returns to Barnard College February 7 - February 10, 2013 Gale Anne Hurd to receive Laura Ziskin Lifetime Achievement Award Additional awardees include: Ava DuVernay, Molly Haskell, Rose Kuo, Pat Mitchell Artemis Rising...

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The Ethiopian NGO, People to People, asked me to make remarks on 27 November 2012 at a symposium on medical education and healthcare in Africa hosted by the University of Kentucky. My remarks cover the massive health care challenges in Africa, the role of NGOs in healthcare coordination and advocacy and the impact of the brain drain.

Click here to read the remarks.

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For those who were waiting to see Edris Elba in Pacific Rim . . . you will have to continue to wait. Today the viral campaign for the film kicked into high gear. With the launch of a website for Pan Pacific Defense Corps which treated us to little more than a map with a countdown to December 12th. No specifics were given about what will happen on this date but other sites are speculating a trailer. My guess is they are probably correct. In addition to the web-site a couple of viral videos and a letter have also made an appearance. Pacific Rim directed by Guillermo del Toro (Pans Labyrnth) is scheduled to open July 2013.

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The exhumation of Yasser Arafat's body has to be one of the more bizarre and macabre stories of the year, and I must confess I have no idea what the results may be. It's of some personal nterest since my netime MEI colleague Clayton Swisher, now with Al Jazeera English, dug up the story that led them to di g up Arafat. I tend to be skeptical of conspiracy theories, but this is the Middle East, and he had many enemies. (I think Palestinians are reflexively assuming that if he was poisoned it must have been Israel, but a real conspiracy theorist ought to be able to come up with something more Byzantine than that.)

Omar Dajani's post yesterday at Foreign Policy, "Arafat's Ghost," neatly ties the exhumation with the UN vote on Palestine. It's worth a read.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/nov/27/nigeria-future-religious-groups?CMP=twt_gu Filed under: Nigerian Current Affairs Tagged: christian, muslim, religion

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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Fifty years since it was published, we look back at the legacy of Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Also on the show, we check out the first ever exhibition to look into France and Russia's relations since 1917. Finally, we visit Tutankhamen's tomb which, for its 90th birthday, has got its very own replica.

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