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Foreign aid has often been more effective than most of the poor are willing to admit. Dotting the developing countries are new dams, low-rent public housing, irrigation systems, power plants and canals. These projects have significantly contributed to the impressive 5.5% annual G.N.P. increase logged by the LDCs as a group during the 1960s, and the nearly 6% annual rise from 1970 to 1974. These gains, of course, were not evenly distributed; a dozen or so nations, such as Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan, developed much more quickly than most of the others, while a few, including Southern Yemen...
John L. Clive, professor of History and chairman of the committee on History and Literature, said the decision reached last Wednesday by the Visual Studies faculty "had no bearing" on his department's actions, and that History and Lit will admit roughly the same numbers of applicants as were admitted last year...
...race's organizers expect each canoe to be paddled by one man and one woman, but Smith said SAE would admit 10 Harvard women, "selected from the members friends and whatnot," as "social members" for the race...
...being in Tahiti and all. He's got a pretty sweet deal, right? Nice weather, not much to do, a big white mansion, beaches, all that stuff. Who's to say there isn't even a little fooling around on the side? Anybody's got to admit there would be worse things than being governor-general...
This other side of Cambridge has always reminded me of my home town, and I go walking there. Yet I have to admit that I never liked my home town a whole lot, so it's odd that I'm drawn to Central Square. When this puzzle occurs to me, I think about a phrase that Ezra Pound wrote, "Old friends the most," and that solves it in a simple way, for a while...