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...Roshan is the largest carrier in the country. It has a million customers, a market share of about 60% and generated revenues of $100 million in its 2005 fiscal year. But to get there, Roshan had to make plenty of adjustments. Afghanistan has no functioning mail system or credit-card services, so billing methods prevalent in the West couldn't be used. Instead, customers get airtime by purchasing prepaid calling cards from roughly 4,000 vendors who are Roshan franchisees. In Kabul, the vendors, most of them selling cards on the street, earn about $100 a month, much more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitalism Comes to Afghanistan | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...administration and accomplished in one week what years of traditional advocacy failed to do. Last week, three course packs were made available for free online, centralizing electronic resources students have already paid for. This demonstration is the start of an effort to put all course packs online by study card day next semester. We fully expect Hadfield and Goldenberg will bring this same ingenuity to other problems they plan to tackle, including the lack of accountability in teaching quality and financial security for student groups.While the UC must, of course, continue to work with the administration, it relies...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Elect Hadfield and Goldenberg | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...cooks from BSA appeared less nervous than the other competitors—on the video they were singing and dancing to the radio while cooking earlier in the day. Antoniu, who put on her glasses and assumed her famous “how could you forget your ID card?” look, elicited laughter from the audience as she kept murmuring, “The crackers are good, but I don’t like the spice.” Alan Ramos ’09, head cook for RAZA, introduced his delicate arrangement of a three-part Mexican...

Author: By Jennifer Ding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Groups Clash in ‘Iron Chef’ Cook-Off | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...teenagers. David, an engineer, pays for his two. "I take care of Mariel's and Jillian's needs," she says, "and he takes care of Rachelle's and Ben's." To avoid hurt feelings over clothes shopping, they decided to give each child cash or a gift card in the same amount every fall and spring. It worked like a charm. "Before we did that," says Susan, "the kids would say, 'Why does she have that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Better House Blend | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...That deceitful offer of money without working - that Negra card - it's shameless populism that can't be compared to the benefits we're currently receiving," said Jesus Sanchez, 62, who is an industrial mechanic. With the help of the government, Sanchez has started a small business and now has a contract to install public lighting at a Chavez-backed cooperative in western Caracas. "I feel like I have a second life," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Chavez Is a Shoo-in: It's the Economy, Stupid | 12/1/2006 | See Source »

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