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| | Live 8 Meets Big 2 |
 | | One was Live 8, the series of concerts held around the world on Saturday to dramatize the plight of poor Africans. |
 | | The other -- let's call it "Big 2" -- was the supposedly bitter argument between Tony Blair, the British prime minister, and Jacques Chirac, the French president, over the future economic structure of the European Union, and in particular its massive agricultural subsidies. |
 | | But, among those who work seriously on Africa, it has long been clear that what Africans need isn't only cash, which can be stolen or wasted, but the opportunity to trade their way out of poverty, just as Asians did over the past several decades. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/05/AR2005070501292.html (815 words) |
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