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...Raised poor in New Orleans, he attended Alabama's Tuskegee University on a baseball scholarship, earned an M.B.A. from Tulane University and worked his way up the ranks to vice president at cable giant Cox Communications by turning around its flagging New Orleans cable system. After hearing his son complain about New Orleans' dearth of career opportunities, Nagin entered the 2002 mayoral race only two months before the Democratic primary and ended up the choice of a city tired of its banana-republic image...
...working conditions, better incomes and better education. Since they don't get money from Beijing, they collect it from the farmers, many of whom are too poor to pay fees, taxes and other levies. This burden has been a classic cause of rural unrest. Faced with excessive fees, farmers complain to higher authorities, petition Beijing, sue the local government or, in more radical cases, surround government buildings and burn offices...
Apple tells of being tired of her reign as ruling musical bitch on “Better Version of Me”: “I am likely to miss the main event/If I stop to cry or complain again.” Fiona Apple’s new verve may startle some, but her style is unfailingly virtuosic...
...alumni still complain because Harvard’s non-profit status makes the salaries of HMC’s top brass public. If Harvard managed externally, these prices would be out of sight and out of mind for alumni but not the University’s financial administration. Alumni who lack the information possessed by those making the decisions should resist the temptation to get angry at headlines that blare that “top fund managers net $100 million in fiscal year 2003 payouts” and instead take into account the hidden costs that endowment managers have...
...It’s good, even if people complain, because they’re listening,” Huang said...