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...percent of the country??s export revenue, natural gas sales are the lifeline of the Burmese junta. But Burma’s gas income does not trickle down to the country??s 52 million people, more than 30 percent of whom live below the poverty line. Rather, these petrodollars sate the junta leaders’ appetite for luxury goods and lavish mansions. More disturbingly, according to the Burma Campaign UK, nearly half of the government’s revenue goes to the military. These dollars paid for the guns that were used last week to shoot...
...investment,” Chevron can keep its stake in the joint venture under federal law. In fact, the joint venture has continued to expand production in Burma since 2005. It added another wellhead platform last year, generating new natural gas revenues that enrich and entrench the country??s junta...
...income students each year, will be capped at a maximum of $5,400 per year by 2012 under the new law. Sally C. Donahue, director of financial aid, called the new legislation, which has been compared to the 1944 G.I. Bill, “an investment in this country??s education, in this country??s future.” “The new law will help greatly students in all institutions, especially those with less resources like community colleges and state schools,” she said. More than 800 Harvard students are recipients...
...which does not mean that their liberal democracy will look like ours,” he added. The event’s other main speaker, Yasheng Huang, an associate professor of international management at MIT, contrasted developments in the Chinese economy during the 1980s and 1990s and praised the country??s private rural entrepreneurship, which he said has proved more successful than government-controlled urban development. Huang, a former Harvard Business School faculty member who has also worked for the World Bank, said Western economists often overlook the establishment of 10 million privately owned rural township and village...
...civil rights, an escalating assault on religious minorities, and the continued encroachment on free speech—everything anathema to a university proud of diversity and openness. And, moreover, they gave him a forum from which he might ridicule everything for which the university—and our country??should stand...