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There's no question that it's a buyer's market for raw materials and that many resource companies are struggling to find willing partners and financiers. China's Rosneft injection will allow the Russian company to pay off $8.5 billion in debt-- 60% of it owed to foreign banks--that matures this year. Beijing looks like the last, best hope of miners and drillers...
...Studying abroad, be it in Paris or Paraguay, provides students with invaluable tools in this increasingly global world. In most cases, it enhances language skills; in all cases, it enables contact with alternative opinions and worldviews, allowing one to understand from the outside how other countries view our own. These factors allow a student to see America, Harvard, and his or her own life...
...pushing my salad around the plate. Here I was, face to face with an eminent professor of the English language, and I found myself missing Gchat. Gchat would give me time to Google his reference to some Florentine poet I’d never heard of. It would even allow me to take a break from talking to watch “David after Dentist.” But, now, trapped in the actual world where remarks were not merely lines of text to be answered or ignored at will, I stared helplessly into my salad, hoping some form...
With the major budget cuts and freezes at Harvard, few students said they were surprised that the College would not want to spend more money on January programming. But some students said they had hoped the administration would allow students to stay on campus over break to participate in activities organized by student groups, such as the Institute of Politics...
...power, embraced a permanent state of revolution - some, like Robert Mugabe and Hugo Chávez, conjuring up fantastical foreign enemies to fight. (To those ranks, now add the leader of the influential ANC Youth League, Julius Malema, who told the East London rally that the young would "never allow them to donate this country to Britain, to the hands of the colonizers.") To their people, this never-ending war is generally experienced as dictatorship. Too many liberation leaders leave office only when another revolutionary seizes power...