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...increase in the price of oil has caused the prices of everything from an apple to a plate to go up this year,” Snyder said. “Costs have risen to a point where we don’t have the extra money...
...left-leaning Polo Democratico Alternativo party, has run on a platform criticizing what he calls Uribe's authoritarian tendencies and his neo-liberal economic policies. That message has resounded with a surprisingly growing number of Colombians; from single digits just a few months ago, the leftist candidate has risen in the polls to nearly...
...desires of a tyrant. With all the loans, oil discounts and financing deals that Chávez grants to Venezuela's neighbors by way of increasing his political muscle, he has truly given away the shirt off our backs, although not his own. Poverty, hunger and crime have risen, while housing and hospitals have suffered. Is Chávez crafty or demented? He is only influential because he hands out money to weak-minded barbarians and unethical beggars who will crawl for the proverbial piece of the pie. Rafael Silveira Caracas time's idea of influence shows a Western perspective...
...other challenges they faced prior to college. The $40,000 Ron Brown Scholarships honor exceptionally motivated and academically accomplished African American high school seniors. Winners provided a snapshot of their individual journeys in an anthology of essays bound in the hard-cover book, “I Have Risen,” which went on sale in late March. The book comes 10 years after the establishment of the scholarship in memory of the late Ron Brown, the first African American to serve as secretary of commerce and Democratic National Committee chair. Brown died in April 1996 aboard a military...
...professor of anthropology and of African and African American studies who motioned the no-confidence vote that Summers lost last spring.Summers made only oblique mention of his many clashes with the Faculty. Near the end of his speech, the president alluded to reports that professors had risen up against him largely because of his brusque leadership style: “The greatest faculty is one in which the values of consensus, respect and collegiality are cherished, but also balanced against other values—clear excellence, measurable progress, and the urgent demands of a world whose needs change...