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...past couple of months, as speculation has turned to the possibility of an early election, Mayawati has held a series of rallies around the country and has begun testing her political weight, perhaps to see how far she can go. On March 31, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi criticized Mayawati for not running Uttar Pradesh properly. Yet on her birthday, both Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was in China at the time, had made sure to call Mayawati to wish her well. After all, they might need her support in a matter of months...
...Cross plans will be automatically moved to one of the remaining plans—Harvard Pilgrim Health Care or the Harvard University Group Health Plan. The two retained plans already cover over 99 percent of physicians included in the Blue Cross and Tufts plans, and Harvard Pilgrim has already begun trying to recruit the physicians that don’t overlap, according to Dawn M. Socha, Harvard’s director of benefits. “We are hopeful no one will need to change providers as a result of this,” Marsden said...
...give the Tigers a two-goal cushion with just over three minutes remaining. Kalemba stopped the other 10 shots that came his way in the third period. By the time Magnowski slid the puck into the empty Harvard net at 18:22, Princeton’s celebrations had begun in earnest “They played very well and made some plays from the net on out,” Donato said. “We were not able to penetrate and get enough dangerous shots.” After the second-place finish, the Crimson’s senior...
Boston may soon be saying hola to a new crop of Caribbean imports, and we’re not talking about bananas. Faced with a rapidly growing Latino population—30 percent of children in the city’s public schools are Hispanic—administrators have begun aggressively recruiting bilingual teachers from Puerto Rico to teach math, science, special education, and English as a second language. While the merits of bilingual education remain controversial, this recruitment is a positive step to help level the playing field for students and promote their success in the classroom. An article...
...country - an estimated 2 to 3 million have left - are unhappy with the direction of the economy. Mugabe blames a Western conspiracy for that, and says the M.D.C. is a Western stooge. But the signs are that increasingly few are listening. Mugabe's own party, the Zanu-PF, has begun to splinter underneath him - his other main challenger is Simba Makoni, a former finance minister. And the unfettered and peaceful campaigning that the M.D.C. and Makoni have enjoyed in the past few weeks has raised doubts about whether Mugabe still commands the loyalty of the security forces, who have violently...