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...Tony's conversion isn't quite as history-altering as Saul's on the road to Tarsus, it'll do fine here. Where he used to think he could make himself great, now he wants to make himself useful. He resolves to study war no more, to do penance for the sins that made him rich. In a way, Tony is a throwback to the tycoons of yore, Rockefeller and Carnegie, who made fortunes by exploiting their workers, then tried to atone through vast philanthropies. (As if building universities and concert halls was a nobler form of payback than contributing...
Botswana, the world's biggest producer of diamonds, has proved an exception to this rule, raising its 1.9 million people out of poverty within the span of a generation. The country's forward-thinking leaders have persuaded a global mining giant to invest in its happy road to development. De Beers, the world's largest diamond-mining company and a name once synonymous with the imperial multinational, has operated its mines with the government for decades as a 50-50 partnership called Debswana. Now De Beers has deepened that cooperation by moving its worldwide diamond-sorting and -valuing operation from...
Falling trade barriers with the West have also reinvigorated some of Turkey's ancient trade centers. In the old Silk Road city of Kayseri, formerly Caesarea, 150 miles (240 km) southeast of Ankara, some 400 factories producing everything from electric cables to blue jeans have sprung up in the past several years. Exports from that city and its sister "Anatolian tigers," as Turks call the industrial hubs of the central part of the country, have doubled since 2002. "We will take care of Europe in its old age," jokes Mustafa Boydak, head of Kayseri's Chamber of Commerce, citing Turkey...
...ensnare a woman? 7) Any wild stories from Bryn Mawr? 8) So, you want to move Quadlings to a new Allston Campus. Have you ever looked at a map? ’Cause that’s pretty damn far! 9) Why did the chicken cross the road? 10) Are you able to give presidential pardons for, say, four noise violations and two incidents of underage drinking? 11) How’d you get into the University president’s office? Like, what were your SAT scores? GPA? Extracurriculars? 12) Does endowment matter? 13) How are you feeling about...
...With a prepared squad and a battle-tested coach, the road ahead doesn’t seem to matter. The Crimson has a chance to add some quality victories to an already memorable experience...