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...winning ways since 1999. After the country's stagnation in the '90s, and the reform shocks of the preceding decade, the Clark era has been a prosperous one. "There is no mood for radical change in our country," Clark declared at her campaign launch in Auckland on Aug. 21. Economic output has grown by an average of 4% a year; the country's unemployment rate has dropped to 3.7%, the lowest in the developed world. Dairy, meat and horticultural export earnings have soared. House prices have boomed, encouraging property owners to borrow - to buy consumer goods or even bigger homes...
While the U.S. News and World Report’s rankings, which were released on Aug. 18, are designed to measure “academic quality” through the use of several criteria including admissions selectivity, faculty-student ratios, students’ SAT scores, and graduation rates, Washington Monthly College Guide ranks colleges and universities on a completely different basis...
...sweeping right to appropriate the property of others for its own commercial use unless it is told, case by case and instance by instance, not to,” wrote the Board of Directors of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP), a major trade group, in an Aug. 19 statement on their website...
...article “College Considers Women’s Center” (News, Aug. 12) suggests that a women’s center, if created, would be the first in Harvard’s history...
This is in response to “Delusions in the Dark Continent” (postcard, Aug. 12), which I find downright condescending, insulting, and obnoxious. The article is premised on the writer’s prejudices and distorts facts to illustrate his condescension of African peoples...