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...authorities over issues like land rights and official corruption. Now, with millions of migrant workers unable to find jobs in the cities and forced to return to their rural homes, village administrators' duties will swell in importance, and the fact that they are directly elected will help to divert anger at administrative shortcomings and other problems away from the Party, something that will be especially welcome to cadres at a time when many returning migrants may not be as willing to unthinkingly accept orders from above after the relative freedom they enjoyed while working in cities. "The people who have...
...Indian state. I had joined an expedition to raft down the Kameng, a savage, white-water river, which roars out of the high Himalayas through jungle canyons that are home to wild elephants, hundreds of orchids and three different species of leopards and tarantulas. The engineers' mission is to divert a tributary of the Kameng and harness its hydroelectricity, and this would be one of the last chances to raft the river before it loses its quicksilver fury. (See pictures of the turning points in Indian history...
...some new tricks that you’re proposing to teach.” PARLEZ-VOUS FRANCAIS? Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 raised the possibility that “already overstressed demands on the infrastructure” would cause the University to divert resources from already existing artistic endeavors on campus. But Tom Conley, professor of romance languages and literature and visual and environmental studies, stood with arms akimbo at the podium and sought to allay Lewis’ concerns. “‘Art is born of constraint...
...which students choose to divert themselves is not an arbitrary and meaningless decision, but rather intimately related to their highest aspirations, principles, and conception of the good life...
...nationally, politicians aren't likely to back anything that hurts their constituents. The bill could well hinge on tiny provisions that members want to see removed or modified. Nelson is already opposing Obama's budget because of education provisions that would end federal support for private student loans and divert the money into grants. NelNet, a private student-loan company in Lincoln, Neb., employs 1,000 people and could go out of business if the budget is enacted as Obama envisions it, Nelson points out. "I think it'd be the wrong direction for people to outsource jobs from Lincoln...