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...your wife died or your son got sick," says one hawker. "You have to pay the lineman." Simultaneously, other collectors are making their way through Dhaka's bazaars. In a wholesale vegetable market inside Kawran Bazaar, thugs belonging to a local Mafia collect daily payments from shopkeepers, which are calculated with impressive precision. A shopkeeper squatting on the pavement has his shop space divided into plots of 3 ft. by 3 ft., and is levied $3.50 daily for each plot. Those whose shops are beside the road, and closer to the trucks that download and pick up wholesale produce, have...
...system in which the chief criminal beneficiaries are a handful of powerful gang lords with important political connections. Former President Chowdhury says some politicians have cultivated gangs of armed youths in order to intimidate their opponents. These gun-toting gangs, most observers believe, also work as extortionists?sometimes to collect cash for their political patrons, sometimes simply to make money for themselves. "There is a nexus of corruption, politics and violence," says Khan Sarwar Murshid, chairman of TI's Bangladesh branch...
Kennedy School of Government (KSG) Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr., who sparked protests last month when he said alumni could only collect financial aid from the school for the first three years after graduation, announced Thursday that current students will be exempt from limits on aid eligibility...
...Connecting the dots is a dangerous two-way street. If you don’t collect [good intelligence] then connecting the dots can be dangerous because you’ll make the wrong conclusions,” he said...
...along with the CHAC’s activism, convinced state administrators to place a family cap on premiums, so families with multiple children enrolled in state health insurance programs won’t be forced to pay excessively high monthly fees. Project HEALTH is now working to collect statistics on the effect of the premium increases. They hope to use the information they collect to lobby the legislature for increased health insurance funding...