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Americans love a square deal. The idea of the quid pro quo, the something for something, lies at the heart of our very sense of fairness. But there's one area in which something for nothing is much closer to the rule, and it's a transaction on which people's very lives turn: organ donation...
...government to avert the agrarian crisis. [However], unlike what the article implies, the disbursal of credit is not an issue of great concern. In the past year, government efforts have doubled credit availability in the six affected districts of Vidarbha while minimizing unauthorized, predatory moneylending in the area. Moreover, the article gives the impression that there has been a substantial increase in the number of farmer suicides recently. This is basically due to increased media attention in the last few years-there is no substantial increase in the number of suicides, if at all. C.S. Sangitrao, Secretary to Chief Minister...
...What follows is my dream agenda, the issues I will use, as a voter and as a journalist, to judge how seriously the various presidential hopefuls should be taken in the election to come. There is only one issue area-foreign policy and national security-that I considered to be an absolute, drop-dead threshold test. The next President will have to be far more knowledgeable about the rest of the world than the current one was when he came to office. He (or she) will also have to recognize that the most important global threats we're facing-terrorism...
...isn’t the only art that will be on display. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the release of the legendary album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the Harvard Square Business Association and Boston-area classic rock radio station WZLX (100.7 FM) have prepared selections of artwork by many of the Beatles, making The Ringo Starr Fine Art Show the largest collection of signed Beatles artwork ever assembled, according to organizers...
Thompson has devoted a lot of time to studying why previous GOP hopefuls imploded. He spent part of last week in his Washington-area office, meeting with veteran campaigners while his aides figured out how to find office space, hire advance men and ride herd on financiers. By jumping into the race in early July (and signaling his intentions widely now), Thompson hopes to slow the fund raising of his embattled friend John McCain...