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...nation than many had perhaps expected, a place where tens of millions of Chinese lined up for hours to make sure their donations of cash or food or clothes were accepted and where tens of thousands of others like the Wus left their jobs and families and rushed to aid their compatriots. So many clothes were contributed that they were piled in mounds six feet high in some devastated towns. Contributions from the country's infamously tightfisted companies hit $1 billion within days...
...with the West has been particularly strained after March's bloody demonstrations in Tibet and the chaotic protests that dogged the Olympic Torch relay. But the quake, coming just 10 days after Cyclone Nargis ripped into Burma, has cast the Chinese government in a different light. By blocking foreign aid, Burma's paranoid military junta demonstrated just how impotent and callous to the suffering of its citizens a repressive autocracy can be. But even Beijing's critics expressed admiration for China's swift response to the quake. Some 120,000 soldiers and paramilitary troops were deployed along with thousands...
...appalled to see that on your list of do's and don'ts, one of the don'ts is to ask your parents to get involved in anything other than financial aid. As the parent of a 16-year-old high school junior, I see this as nothing more than an attack on the family unit. My wife and I are both college-educated with professional careers. We are certainly capable of helping our daughter deal with being on a waitlist or any other issues around getting into college, including identifying others who might be able to help...
...France, the E.U.'s biggest recipient of farm aid, launched a preemptive strike, warning that the global food crisis made the CAP more relevant than ever. "The solution to the crisis is not, first of all, through free trade," French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier told fellow E.U. farm ministers on Monday. Paris also co-opted Germany, the E.U.'s biggest budget contributor, in its bid to maintain the annual flow of around $63 billion (€40 billion) in hand-outs to Europe's farmers...
...beforehand,” said Reed, who plans to focus on financial policy issues. According to Ellwood, Kennedy School students who graduate with debt are less likely to pursue careers in the public sector. The jobs students take, he said recently, are highly correlated to the amount of financial aid they receive as well as the debt with which they graduate. “We remain committed to the ideal that student debt must not inhibit the career choices of our graduates, and the Rubenstein Fund will help enormously in that effort,” Ellwood said in a press...