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...emphasized above ineffective structural reforms that paper over persisting problems. India has had legal structures meant to fight corruption since the country’s inception, but in the words of Kennedy School professor Lant Pritchett, “the de jure process no longer has any real claim on the behavior of the agents of the state, who are following a different de facto set of procedures” that have basically institutionalized corruption. Even new elected officials or new laws will not change the expectation that a bribe needs to be paid to get something done...
Winters dismissed Flaherty’s claim that he would represent Cambridge better than Everett resident DiDomenico, pointing out that DiDomenico was born in East Cambridge and attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...
...balls bounced the Crimson’s way. Tachibana defeated Stephanie Kent, 7-6 (5), 6-3, at No. 2. Junior Agnes Sibilski charged back at No. 5 after dropping the first set, 6-2, to claim matching 6-3 wins in the second and third sets...
...Harvard hopes to make it to the competition as well, the team must claim one of two at-large bids, which, according to Farrar, the Crimson has a very strong case...
...after Bhutto was killed, Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, a senior official at the Interior Ministry, held a press conference, on Musharraf's instructions, to pin the assassination on Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed last August in a rocket strike in South Waziristan - a claim later supported by the CIA. According to the report, it was no secret that Pakistan's militants loathed Bhutto and her stance against Islamist violence. But the Musharraf government's "hasty" announcement, the report says, "was premature at best" and "prejudiced the police investigations which had not yet begun...