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...Just weeks later, East Timor again descended into conflict, and the country still simmers with strife. What went wrong? In reality, the simple narrative of East Timor's success hid a far more complex story line. Yes, the Timorese cherish independence. But no amount of freedom masks the fact that nearly 45% of the country lives on less than $1 a day. When the international community began decamping in 2002, thousands of jobs associated with its presence disappeared. The current government, run by the political party Fretilin, a key resistance force during the Indonesian occupation, hasn't improved the economic...
Consider KPMG. From 1997 to 2001, the firm sold four types of shelters that helped clients avoid taxes by doing things like putting income temporarily in a tax-exempt entity. The transactions were so complex, it was hard to see a purpose other than skirting taxes. Although the IRS ruled them potentially improper in 2000, experts disagreed about their legality...
...stifled discussion,” she says. She blames the lack of women envisioning themselves as potential political entities on a dearth of role models, at Harvard and on a national stage. In the age of Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and other powerful female politicians, the victimization complex may appear to be rearing its liberal, hippie head—but Grizzle, a four-year veteran of conservative Harvard politics, agrees that women in politics, no matter their affiliation, face challenges...
...shame of this is not just that bad buildings may get built. The proposed art center, packed into a too-small site, its public purpose largely undefined, is such a building. For all its environmental rectitude, Harvard’s Allston Science Complex is too tall for the neighborhood, and new roadways threaten to make our already congested traffic unbearable. But the greater shame is the lost opportunity to really create what Harvard said it wanted: a new sort of campus community...
More seriously, I wonder if Harvard students wouldn’t like to volunteer as tutors in our community and meet our kids. Would the staff of the proposed Science Complex really object if our children share the daycare center with theirs? And when their staff use the fitness center, would it be so bad if the person at the next machine was an Allston resident? Can’t we all take the shuttle together to Harvard Square...