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Is Democracy really working in Developing countries?

A post on Dare’s blog led me to this article:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16723221/site/newsweek/

“We need to face up to the fact that in many developing countries democracy is not working very well." Diamond points to several countries where elections have been followed by governmental paralysis, corruption and ethnic warfare. The poster child for this decline has to be Nigeria, a country often lauded for its democracy. In fact, the place is in free fall—an oil-rich country with per capita GDP down to $390 (from $1,000 20 years ago), a ranking below Bangladesh on the United Nations Human Development Index,”

Along other lines, if any of you have time to spare in the search for Jim Gray it would be much appreciated.

--Hoop

Halo Wars

http://www.halowars.com/

I'm so excited I'm getting Goose pimples all over.

I suppose given that I'm in the entertainment division I should have known about this before my brother did but Peter tends to keep up on this stuff much more than I do. 

Fun times ahead...

What is a smack anyway?

Reading through some old posts on my MSDN blog I saw this diagram. I still haven't figured out what a smack is...
 

Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars

EA has finally launched a website for the next version of the Command & Conquer strategy game series. I'm a huge C&C fan so I can't wait for this to come out.

 

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