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...country, Adeang says, is "at rock bottom," and it may be years before it achieves a solid economic footing. In the meantime, the help of friends is vital. Australia's parliamentary secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Bruce Billson, says Nauru's largest neighbor welcomes the budget measures and is optimistic that the Scotty government will abandon the financial recklessness of the past: "There has never been such a sense of shared purpose." An Australian finance team is in Nauru helping to audit its messy dealings, while two Australian Federal Police members have arrived to assist the local force...
...Harvard outplayed us, outworked us,” Whitehead said. “That’s why they drew those penalties, because they were outworking us, and the bottom line was, they capitalized on their power plays and we didn’t. That was the difference in the game...
...whites to benefit materially and psychologically. Globalization, however, wreaked havoc on this pre-1960s American social order as manufacturing jobs (and social mobility) moved to the suburbs and then overseas. Pushed into benefit-deprived, unstable service economy jobs, or into chronic un- or underemployment, black workers confined to the bottom of the economic hierarchy became economically unviable as laborers. Herded into the abandoned central cities, this black urban “underclass” revolted in the mid-1960s against these conditions in a series of urban “riots” across...
These towns are being forced to sacrifice their environments in the name of the environment. In nearly all cases, just a few landowners and, more importantly, the town’s bottom line will benefit, negating valid objections from most others. And wind developers know that while flying on green coattails, they can’t easily be turned away, despite the increasingly dubious merit of their proposals...
...these reasons, it is especially unfortunate that The Harvard Crimson made little mention of the art opening in the following day’s newspaper. One photographer was sent to take a small picture on the bottom of the front page, but staff members decided that this event did not warrant a news story. The Harvard AIDS Coalition strongly believes that the members of the Harvard community unable to attend the art opening would have benefited from hearing about its existence and effect on those fortunate enough to attend. We also believe that when concerning events of international significance, such...