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...Since June 4, gasoline is up by 11%, diesel by 10% and LPG by 17%. The price of kerosene, the most widely used cooking fuel, was left unchanged, but the other increases will push up India's inflation rate, which at 8.24% is already at a four-year high. Public anger is growing. India's leftist parties called for a week of protests after Singh's TV announcement. The states of West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala saw general strikes that emptied the streets. Slogan-shouting housewives marched through New Delhi, while in Mumbai protestors rode bullock carts to show that...
...absolutely delighted when he found out that he did well at the end of the first semester,” said Charles Toder ’60, Rubin’s four-year roommate. “And he proved to be a very capable, very good student...
...accepting thanks from seniors and their families. At one point the former treasury secretary was asked to sign a dollar bill. He obliged.“He’s very famous,” a mother told her child, not even waist-high, pointing at Summers.When the child, four-year old James Corcoran, made his way to the front of the line, he was rewarded with plenty of attention.“To James,” Summers said, reading aloud a message he had written down for the boy. “Study. And come take my class...
...when a coach has a major impact. In his four years in charge of the Harvard women’s golf team, Kevin Rhoads has changed the face of the program. This year, the Crimson won the Ivy League Championship for the first time in its history. “Our goal was to win the Ivies and he led us to that,” sophomore Claire Sheldon said. “He’s been instrumental in our success.” The title came after a long, four-year process by which the former UCLA player...
...second concern exists: At four-year colleges, approximately 15 percent of students take out private loans instead of federal ones. Private lenders can offer more money than federal loans, but also charge much higher interest rates, leaving students in substantial debt. A promising effort in Washington D.C. this year was spearheaded by Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’56 and other leading Democrats to increase both the number of federal Pell Grants available to college students and raise the maximum size of those awards. The proposed bill, called the “Strengthening Student...