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43. As reported in Barry Schweid, “Jewish group says Putin’s ‘instincts’ help fuel bias,” Seattle Times, March 16, 2001.
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44. On Abramovich’s recent replacement by Geraschenko, see Andrei Grigoriev, “Twelve and a Half,” What the Papers Say, January 22, 2002, pp. 17–21. On the recent rise of political anti-Semitism, see National Conference on Soviet Jewry, “The Reemergence of Political Anti-Semitism in Russia,” pp. 1–4.
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45. Judith Matloff, “Russians seek scapegoats in hard times,” Christian Science Monitor, August 13, 1999, p. 9.
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46. Michael R. Gordon, “Russian Jews Turning Edgy as the Country’s Chaos Creates an Ugly Mood,” New York Times, March 9, 1999, p. A12.
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47. National Conference on Soviet Jewry, “The Reemergence of Political Anti-Semitism in Russia,” p. 4.
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48. Ibid., p. 5.
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49. Ibid., p. 6; Matloff, “Russians seek scapegoats in hard times,” p. 9.
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50. Nabi Abdullaev, “New Political Party Campaigns against Jews,” Moscow Times, February 28, 2002.
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Chapter 4
1. Ryszard Kapu´sci´nski, Another Day of Life (San Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987), pp. 10, 23–24, 66–67. For additional reading on Angola, see Gerald J. Bender, Angola under the Portuguese (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1978). See also Reference Center, “Virtual Historical Tour of Angola,” http://209.183.193.172/referenc/history/virtualtour.html and “Angola—A History,” http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/angola/history.htm.
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2. The World Bank, World Bank Country Brief on Angola, July 2001, available at http://www.worldbank.org/afr/ao2.htm.
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3. David J. Lynch, “A Wary Nation Looks to a Time of Transition,” USA Today, December 15, 1997, p. 17A. The quote from Namibia’s President Nujoma is from “Namibia: President raps commercial farmers for firing workers ‘arbitrarily,’” BBC Worldwide Monitoring, March 29, 2001.
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4. On the historical economic dominance of South Africa’s English speakers vis-à-vis the more numerous Afrikaners, see Milton J. Esman, “Ethnic Politics and Economic Power,” Comparative Politics 19 (1987): 395–418. General histories of South Africa include Michael Attwell, South Africa: Background to the Crisis (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1986), and T. R. H. Davenport, South Africa: A Modern History (4th ed.) (London: Macmillan, 1991).
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5. The statistics I cite on the persisting economic dominance of South Africa’s white minority, and the continuing mass poverty of the black majority, are from recent reports by South Africa’s Black Economic Empowerment Commission (2000 and 2001), available at http//www.bmfonline.co.za/bee_rep.htm. See also Maurice Hommel, “Escaping Poisonous Embrace of Racism,” Toronto Star, August 24, 2001, p. A21; “Skin Deep,” The Economist, July 21, 2001; Hardev Kaur, “Affirmative Action Plan Calls for Advancement of Blacks,” New Straits Times (Malaysia), May 24, 2001, p. 10; Hardev Kaur, “Blacks Continue to Live in Poverty,” New Straits Times (Malaysia), May 23, 2001, p. 10; and Christopher Ogden, “The Post-Miracle Phase,” Time International, September 16, 1996, p. 46.
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6. On colonial Namibia, see Jan-Bart Gewald, Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890–1923 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2001). On the persisting extreme economic inequality between the white minority and the black majority, see the 2001 Country Review on Namibia written by CountryWatch.com and the World Bank Africa Live Database. See also The World Bank Group, “Namibia,” September 2000, available at http://www.worldbank.org/afr/na2.htm, and “Namibia,” The Economist, November 7, 1992, p. 49.
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7. See Nicholas Stein, “The De Beers Story: A New Cut on an Old Monopoly,” Fortune, February 19, 2001, p. 186.
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8. See Ibid., p. 186; Rob Edwards,