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EAST TIMOR: You were only able to exploit those resources in the Timor Gap because you negotiated a good deal with Indonesia while it was illegally occupying our country. It was a political solution, not a legal one. As soon as we achieved independence, all bets were...
...resulted in a strike in Southern California that cost the region's big three chains some $350 million in earnings last quarter--won enough concessions to stay competitive, even after Wal-Mart unleashes its Supercenters in the area. The next step, experts agree, is to continue narrowing the price gap with the world's largest retailer and find a way to justify the remaining premium. Here's what supermarkets need to do to avoid the ultimate checkout...
Panel member Stephen E. Dewey ’07, a member at large of the Harvard Republican Club, questioned the difference between urban and rural poverty, wondering whether that gap was not as important as that between blacks and whites...
Although mortgage interest rates have hit historic lows in recent years, many minorities are still missing out on the benefits of home ownership. High prices are partly to blame but so, apparently, is a sizable information gap, according to a survey out last week from mortgage financier Fannie Mae. Minorities are especially at risk of letting misperceptions prevent them from buying. For example, 73% of the general population know you don't have to have perfect credit to qualify for a mortgage. But only 57% of African Americans, 64% of Hispanics who speak mostly English at home...
Queen Rania, the wife of Jordan's King Abdullah, has described the challenge to her country as trying to reconcile tradition with modernity. In Jordan, the issues she champions to bridge this gap include computer skills for schoolchildren, micro loans for women to start their own businesses, ending child abuse and trafficking and pushing for harsher penalties for honor killings. But I know her through her efforts on a larger world stage. Along with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, Rania is working to spread the modern gospel of childhood vaccination. As she noted that evening...