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...November 2003, local officials hailed New Delhi's victory in the race to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an opportunity to modernize its infrastructure and showcase the Indian capital as a world-class city. But New Delhi's preparations for the games - which involve Britain and most of its former colonies - have been so tardy and poorly executed that diplomats here joke that workers will still be painting the lanes on the athletic track when the runners take their marks...
While not nearly as prestigious as the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, which involves some 5,000 athletes from 53 countries, will be the largest sporting event ever staged in India. Having staked India's reputation on the event, New Delhi is spending an estimated $12 billion to prepare the city for the games. With less than three years to go, plans to build state-of-the-art sports facilities and transport infrastructure, including new roads, at least 74 flyovers and new underground subway lines, have yet to be executed. Delhi's dilapidated train stations and airports will also have...
...disparities.” The CHA’s financial woes stem largely from the number of uninsured patients it has been treating in the months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. Prior to the law, the CHA was reimbursed by the Commonwealth for the full cost of providing uncompensated services. But Boudrow said that the CHA is now only receiving 60 to 70 cents for each dollar of medical services that it provides. This reduction has had a significant financial impact on the Alliance in the past year because many low-income...
...citizens of Massachusetts must grapple with the controversial actions of the colonial period, and must face squarely the moral consequences of colonial slaughter of Native Americans. But it is questionable whether the arena of semiotics is appropriate for these confrontations to take place. The name of the Commonwealth itself stems etymologically from the exterminated Massachusett tribe of Algonquians. Ought we consider changing that as well (perhaps to something like South New Hampshire...
...point of the bill—to establish a commission to discuss these semiotic issues—is a healthy expression of our willingness to articulate our orientation with the past. Hopefully, though, the commission will find that the “contemporary commitments” of the Commonwealth lie in the production of a harmonious future, not in re-fabricating elements of the past...