Winners & Losers

Winners Women: Bill Gates decides to empower women in the fight against AIDS. An effective microbicide would mean more for female freedom than the Pill. Students: Getting smarter and smarter in the States and across the pond. Either that, or standards are slipping. Pluto: Proof that beating up on the little guy doesn’t always work. ...

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Winners

Winners

Women: Bill Gates decides to empower women in the fight against AIDS. An effective microbicide would mean more for female freedom than the Pill.

Students: Getting smarter and smarter in the States and across the pond. Either that, or standards are slipping.

Pluto: Proof that beating up on the little guy doesn’t always work.

YouTube: Set to put every music video ever made online for free within 18 months. Who wants their MTV now? George Allen, perhaps.

Losers

UN credibility: Failing attempt to beef up the peacekeeping force in Lebanon yet   another blow to Turtle Bay’s battered reputation.

Dan Halutz: The IDF’s chief of staff managed his stock portfolio better than the war effort. Horror stories from returning reservists might make his position untenable. 

Airline industry: Delays, diversions, lost luggage. Suddenly Snakes on a Plane doesn’t sound so bad after all.

Pesto lovers: Hails storms wipe out Genoa’s basil crop and dinner plans from Cambridge to Georgetown. 

James Forsyth is assistant editor at Foreign Policy.

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