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Harvard, as a school better known for academics than athletics, was doubtless expected to fare quite well in the first compilation of a new measure called the “Academic Progress Rate” (APR), released last week by the NCAA...
...think the Faculty is anxious to get back in business,” he said, referring to recent setbacks due to Summers’ resignation. “I believe that we are going to make a lot of progress on the curricular review this spring...
...build a new fishing industry,” Drayton said. Ashoka started in India with a budget of less than $50,000. Today, it spends over $17 million a year financing over 1,700 fellows in 60 countries, according to the organization’s website. Despite the progress, over the last 25 years in the social sector, Drayton said that this market is still largely underdeveloped. “If you were to look at a supply and demand diagram, there is very high demand with low supply,” Drayton said. He says that the importance...
...India now has several world-class conglomerates. And there are 70,000 millionaires in India, celebrating a stock index that has tripled in three years. But in a country of 1.1 billion people, where 800 million earn $2 a day or less, the Naxal movement shows that members-only progress can spur a deep sense of injustice. Economic growth of 7-8% sounds pretty good until you realize it means just an extra $40 a year for the average Indian. The changes that will improve the life chances of all - ending malnutrition and corruption, reforming infrastructure, education and health care...
This is a side of Afghanistan that George W. Bush didn't see last week. Visiting the country for the first time, Bush spent five hours in the capital, Kabul, and hailed Afghanistan's progress since the ouster of the Taliban more than four years ago. The country has made strides: it has an elected government, newly paved roads, more children in school, the appearance of a few shopping centers in Kabul. But the improvements in the lives of many Afghans are tempered by the country's persistent insecurity, which is fueled by a rampant drug trade and a Taliban...