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...laid-back Hanoi was the place to be. Those serious about making money went to Ho Chi Minh City, with its bustling boulevards and entrepreneurial business culture. As recently as three years ago, Ho Chi Minh City (still informally called Saigon) took in 30% of the country's foreign direct investment (FDI) and generated 40% of exports-despite the fact that the former capital of South Vietnam is home to less than a tenth of the country's population of 84 million. Indeed, Vietnam's economic growth was so uneven that a 2004 United Nations Development Program report fretted...
...lack an outlet for their concerns. Columbia and other Ivies have active Student-Athlete Advisory Committees (SAAC) that regularly meet with college administrators. Harvard has its own SAAC, but for all its good work gauging athletic concerns, it is only connected to the Athletic Department administrators who have no direct authority over College or student life issues. Harvard’s SAAC has the potential to facilitate athletic concerns, but it has yet to reach its full potential as an intermediary between athletes and college life...
...living room or at the reading room of the local public library is fundamentally different from that which one undertakes through formal study at an institution of higher learning. This fundamental difference is due mostly to the fact that an institution of higher learning provides one with direct and personal exposure to an academic community. Person-to-person interaction within an intellectual environment has long, and rightly, been credited as an indispensable part of a quality university education. During my tenure at Harvard, I learned at least as much, if not more, from discussions with professors and fellow students outside...
...Executive power of the kingdom of Nepal, which was in our safekeeping, shall from this day be returned to the people," the King said. Gyanendra, who had suspended democracy and seized direct power in February 2005, undertook to hand the reins of government to a prime minister picked by the alliance of seven political parties that has spearheaded the campaign against...
...this threats. He has to lobby for his position within a power structure in which his is not the dominant voice. And while Ahmadinejad thunders against compromise, Larijani and other elements of the regime have made clear that Iran still seeks a deal, preferably in direct face-to-face talks with Washington...