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...shoppers earn wages that barely cover staples. At night harsh floodlights glare over silent, empty streets. Exporting leftover Soviet weapons worldwide and, allegedly, serving as a conduit for illegal arms trafficking from Russia, help keep the Lukashenko state afloat. It is also dependent on Russia for the country's main legitimate source of income: two oil refineries that process cheap Russian crude and sell it to Europe as high-priced diesel and other heavy fuels. All the oil and weapons export revenues flow into the shadowy presidential budget that the Batska personally controls. Otherwise, he claims, unworthy officials would embezzle...
...African Digital Bridges (ADB) says its network services 40% of the island and 60% of the population, and that by early next year, Mauritius should be completely wi-fi. From that time, visitors will be able to borrow wireless modems and buy prepaid cards for their laptops at the main tourist hotels, allowing them to connect to the local network, whether they're out by the pool, at the bar or on the beach. And you can do more than just check your e-mail. Rizwan Rahim, head of ADB Networks - which trades in Mauritius as Network Plus - says...
...Some customers who visited All Is Fair during its grand opening yesterday afternoon—many of whom said they were involved in free-trade and workers’-rights causes—told The Crimson that they were pleased with the products on display, but noted that their main reasons for making purchases there would be humanitarian ones...
...marvelously articulate about her work,” Garber said. “This was kind of a natural way to bring together two people who are very interesting individually and who are even more interesting together.”The Carpenter Center’s main lecture hall reached capacity 30 minutes before the event began, and the line outside stretched to the steps leading to Quincy Street. Audience members ranged from middle-aged Cantabrigians to hipster students sporting thick-framed, Daniel Liebeskind-style glasses.Though Lin is a true-blue Yalie—she earned two degrees in architecture...
John and Tara have a platform that emphasizes student voice and student agency. While we commend the platform of John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ‘07 for addressing the concerns of students on financial aid as John and Tara have, the main difference in the platforms of each campaign is the future role of the UC in social programming, which must be directed toward fulfilling the demands of students...