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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 130.
Published: 01 June 2018
..., as a bartender I try not to psychoanalyze anyone by his or her order, but I do take special pleasure in Saddam Hussein and Benito Mussolini’s drinks of choice. Mateus, a medium-sweet frizzante rosé that once made up 40 percent of Portugal’s total wine export before wine coolers and white zinfandel elbowed...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 70–83.
Published: 01 March 2018
... resorted to sex work to make ends meet. 76 WORLD POLICY JOURNAL UGANDA Sweet Love, a transgender woman, poses for a portrait in the Children of the Sun safe house...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (2): 7–11.
Published: 01 June 2011
... clutter and over-scheduling and you strike a powerful chord. T he 12x12 forced me to consider “enough”—the sweet spot between too little and too much . I came to the cabin in the woods by way of a 60-year-old American physician, a woman I refer to in Twelve by Twelve as Jackie Benton...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 75.
Published: 01 June 2018
... relationships. JEITINHO (BRAZIL): seeking personal favors to solve problems by cajoling, sweet-talking, and rule-bending. OMERTÀ (ITALY): unwritten code of keeping silent about crimes or deviant acts, particularly those perpetrated by mafia groups. JANTELOVEN/JANTELAGEN (SCANDINAVIA): set...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 41–44.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of their marriage, a laughable idea for most Pashtun men. As the years passed, he remained sweet-tempered, chiding his wife only when she missed her prayers. If the rebel Khaula offers one model of femininity, the Taliban wife provides another. In both cases, however, there is a pointed rejection of the idea...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 69–76.
Published: 01 March 2003
... on years that followed.1 “After the fifth issue of the eve of battles. But after the French de­ our magazine, I thought we had succeeded, feat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, victory was but I was wrong,” Hoang Cam said. Circu­ not sweet. Hoang Cam and other intellectu­ lation of the magazine...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 43–50.
Published: 01 June 2003
... these genetically Europe has sought suppliers that are GM “contaminated” grains to 52 million free. Zambia’s exports to the EU include people.1 sweet corn, and in order to protect that The Zambians noted that Americans trade the Zambian government decided eat most...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (4): 17–22.
Published: 01 December 2015
... tasted for the first time pisco sour—the drink that combines the grape-based liquor with egg whites and sugar cane syrup. More than a few discovered that the sweet cocktail, being so tasty and easy on the palate, could give way to a major hangover especially after the second or third glass. Today’s...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (3): 1–5.
Published: 01 September 2016
... destructive drives, always say that we are the most calm people they have ever met. We’re told we are generous, kind, and sweet with an introverted grace. We only serve them what they want to see and hear. There exist words, exclamations, stories, and questions about our past that were not—and still...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 43–54.
Published: 01 June 2017
... plastic sign draped over a three-tiered apartment complex. “Everything 50 percent off (some 70 percent off).” The sweet smell of mahogany wafts through the air. In the back portion of a vast parking lot, men in maroon T-shirts are shrink-wrapping lovely Indonesian chests, majestic grandfather clocks...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (2): 101–106.
Published: 01 June 2013
... pageants and dressed up in costumes. For Easter week, we’d make pots of chicha and bollo, everyone would go out with plates, and neighbors would hand out food and sweets. In June, it was horse races for the festival of San Juan, and on the day of Santa Rosa de Lima on August 30, we’d take the statue...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 45–49.
Published: 01 June 2005
... licensing scheme, the re­ which to invest.2 duction of import tariffs, and the initial Many experts believe that the “sweet opening of the country to foreign direct in­ spot” for mobile phone penetration is vestment set the stage for India’s emergence GDP per capita of roughly $3,000 per year. from...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (3): 55–62.
Published: 01 September 2015
... not only in sweets that palm oil is found—it’s found in many food products. Courageous decisions must be taken on the level of the FAO, because it is not possible to let industrial lobbies ravage entire countries and populations. WPJ: Do you have confidence in organizations such as FAO and others...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 47–52.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., along with Brazilian Ghana’s Unharvested Wealth chickens). Pineapples are plentiful in Ghana. They are Rotting pineapples and discarded co­ sweet and juicy, a product of the country’s conut flesh are symbols of another kind of lush coastal belt. Small landholders grow food failure in Ghana...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (2): 67–73.
Published: 01 June 2005
... to the “great leader” in several Rus­ like Putin”—and to make chocolate statues sian towns, in April the Communist Party of this oh so pleasantly sweet modern auto­ of the Russian Federation under the leader­ crat. While Stalin cautiously built himself ship of Gennady Zyuganov voted to invali­ an official...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 70–80.
Published: 01 December 2011
... Conflict, eventually settling on a plot of land in Sanduku in 2001. Ngona claims that when he arrived, there were no houses or crops on the land. Since then, Ngona has built a one-room circular hut with a packed dirt floor; planted a banana “garden” of several hundred trees; sown cassava, corn, sweet...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 77–85.
Published: 01 March 2015
... is sincerely grateful for the free t-shirts distributed on the campaign trail, right before he is shuttled to the polling stations. As the presidential figure of Compaoré arrives with a barrage of musical entertainment, sweets, and clothes, why shouldn’t the average citizen trust him? Indeed, there is little...
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (4): 74–84.
Published: 01 December 2012
..., the image that has been cultivated abroad of a nation of spendthrifts who refuse to implement unpleasant reforms, and the rise of an insurgent racist and fascist movement are all at odds with the how Greeks once saw themselves in the world. After a long, sweet sleep in the arms of the European Union, which...
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World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (3): 33–40.
Published: 01 September 2000
... before The question is further complicated by the reversion, admonished that a base-de­ the hugely disproportionate share of the prived Okinawa would “revert immediately Japanese Self-Defense Force they also unwill­ to a barefoot economy, dependent on sweet ingly host, causing many even more...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (2): 95–101.
Published: 01 June 2003
..., others labored chase of Alaska by the United States from to create desserts that similarly combined an Russia in 1867, he served the meringue and inner core of ice cream with an outer casing ice cream concoction to a grateful world, of some hot, sweet matter— pastry or me­ initially calling...