One of the assumptions that divides institutions of faith from those based on politics and international agreements is the automatic assumption that you have to teach me spirituality, that you have to give me a moral center, that you must convince me there's more to development than economic mechanisms.
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I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the 2.6 billion to 2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.James Wolfensohn
I am just going to see in the next quarter of this year what my own plans are, and see whether I can still make a contribution, or maybe there will be others who can do better than me.
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Good morning. Well, thank you very much. You got up very early.
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One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.
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