Chelsea show Europe they mean business
The News Review:
- Chelsea show Europe they mean business
- Program’s First Grants Set to Aid Madagascar
- Delta shrugs off relationship ‘rubbish’
- Reform them
Chelsea show Europe they mean business
Independent Online – Mar 10, 2005
Abramovich has spent some 200-million on playersThey raced into a 3-0 lead in the first 19 minutes and it was the home side’s resilience, a quality lacking in Chelsea sides of recent seasons, that marked them out as potential European champions. Barcelona got two goals back before halftime, a penalty and a magical, feinted strike by Ronaldinho which would have been enough to take them into the last eight on the away goals rule. However, Chelsea fought back and won with a 76th-minute winner from home-grown captain John Terry. The enormity of Chelsea’s victory cannot be over-estimated and it shocked the players themselves. “It was a strange, fantastic game,” striker Mateja Kezman said. “To go 3-0 up against a team like Barcelona in less than 20 minutes was a very unusual feeling. “We dropped a bit when they came back to 3-2, that was very tough.
Program’s First Grants Set to Aid Madagascar
Washington Post – Mar 10, 2005
Take your time to get it right, then come to us and we can work with you. ‘ ” Recipient countries submit their own proposals for how they would spend the money, rather than working with international aid specialists to develop priorities, in the belief that a home-grown plan is more likely to produce results. Applegarth declined to discuss details of the Madagascar grant proposal because the board, which includes Cabinet members, has not yet discussed it. Like the other nations on the list, half of which are in Africa, Madagascar is very poor, with income per capita at less than $300 per year.
Delta shrugs off relationship ‘rubbish’
The Age – Mar 10, 2005
“Especially of Brian,” she said. Asked about the controversy of their relationships andallegations she was a home wrecker, she said: “I don’t believe anyof it. She’s a just home-grown girl from Australia. Lisa Cadman, also 18, of Coburg, a primary teaching student, wasadamant that Goodrem had behaved appropriately. “I think Australia will back her up every step of the way,” MsCadman said. “People should leave her personal life alone and enjoyand focus on her music and acting. Let the girl live her life…
Let the girl live her life. Mary Psarologos, a 33-year-old carpet cleaner from Werribee, hadbrought her daughter Stephanie, 9, and nieces Mary Barbaris, 8, andTeri Barbaris, 6. “I love her music,” she said, “and when you know what she’s beenthrough with cancer and the split-up with the Scud, that horrible,horrible man who broke here heart. Asked about the furore over McFadden, she said: “Shit happens,you can quote that. It happens every day, you just don’t hearbecause it’s not Delta.
Reform them
Forbes – Mar 10, 2005
At the opposite extreme, there are countries with carefully thought-out ideas that do not receive IMF or World Bank support and end up doing well. Chile in the 1980s is one example; cut off from international support because of its dictatorial regime, it embarked upon an economic program that produced miracles. The IMF cannot substitute for home-grown ideas, nor should it impose programs on a country. It should support a country’s policies only when it considers those policies to be right. Since international financial markets don’t work perfectly under all circumstances, support should be in the form of money. The fund and the bank should play more of a consultative role, as a sort of databank of ideas and policies. They should use the resources at hand to support those programs that draw intensively on good ideas.