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...Iraq war. The current Prime Minister Gordon Brown seems to share his predecessor's lack of enthusiasm. At a September press conference Brown gestured to a journalist that it was his turn at the microphone. As the journalist identified himself, Brown motioned him to stop. The event had barely begun, and the PM had already answered questions from four BBC correspondents. Now here was a fifth. Brown didn't care that each journalist represented different BBC outlets catering to different audiences. To him, the BBC was the BBC, and enough was enough...
This year India's tea industry has finally begun fighting back. The central government has promised $1.16 billion over the next 15 years in loans and subsidies for new, more productive plantings. Copying the clever marketing of tea producers in Sri Lanka and Africa, Indian entrepreneurs have begun to build their own upscale brands. Some producers, meanwhile, are branching out into tea bars for the subcontinent's free-spending young professionals. India's tea producers may never recapture the glory days, but they'll need a new strategy to survive into the future...
...hectare) Happy Valley tea estate in March, its tea bushes were old, its machinery was obsolete, and its workers had not been paid regular wages for months. Seven months on, the estate's new owners have hired new managers, started regular maintenance of the plants and soil and begun a move to organic farming. Perhaps most important, productivity is inching up. In addition to a guaranteed minimum daily wage of $1.38, workers get incentives to pick more. Darjeeling's oldest tea estate is turning its original factory into a working museum. "Innovation, along with quality and marketing...
House Committees (HoCos) have begun finalizing ideas for their Houses’ tailgates this week, despite a delay in receiving the official rules of the tailgate, which many called confusing...
Sorry to trip you up like that. You’ve most likely already donned your favorite “YUCK FALE” t-shirt (because what could be wittier than almost swearing, but not?) and have already begun ritually burning a bulldog in effigy. But I don’t blame you for being confused. You see, this year, the two games are scheduled for the same weekend. One will take place tomorrow night, across the Charles River, and the other on Saturday, across the Massachusetts-Connecticut border...