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...rich and poor?evident in a sharp rise in public demonstrations against government corruption, labor strife and other civil disturbances?may threaten Party rule, higher-ups fear. "When the leadership starts talking about harmony," says Wu Guogang, professor of political science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, "it's a pretty good indication that they're afraid things aren't harmonious...
Among other Ivy League schools placing in the top 10, Cornell University ranked third with $385.9 million, University of Pennsylvania was fourth with $332.8 million, Columbia University ranked seventh with $290.6 million, and Yale University placed ninth with $264.8 million...
...stellar all-around performance in sprint and distance relays, as well as individual events, gave Harvard its eighth EISL crown in a decade, a solid 1460.0-1363.5 victory over second-place Princeton. Columbia rounded out the top three with 1,040.5 points, but the weekend belonged to the longstanding and fierce Crimson-Tigers rivalry...
...Millennium Development Goals, to raise annual aid to 0.7 percent of GNP of the donor countries (starting with an extra $70 billion per year as of 2006), in order to halve poverty by 2015. He's a special adviser to Annan while pursuing a day job as head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, which reflects his philosophy as an economist: that sustainable development can be achieved only through an approach that considers everything from geography to infrastructure to family structure. "Right now, I'm just running flat between all these various assignments," he said last week. "I got back...
This village could be rescued, but not by itself. Survival depends on addressing a series of specific challenges, all of which can be met with known, proven, reliable and appropriate technologies and interventions. (Thanks to a grant from the Lenfest Foundation in the U.S., the Earth Institute at Columbia University will put some novel ideas to work in Sauri.) Sauri's villages, and impoverished villages like them all over the world, can be set on a path of development at a cost that is tiny for the world but too high for the villages themselves and for the Kenyan government...