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...international charities often have to work through a host country's government, which may have an agenda of its own (suppressing separatists in Aceh, to use Indonesia as an example). If you prefer an overseas charity, stick to those that have partnered with more well-known organizations, suggests Eric Thurman, CEO of Geneva Global, a group that hooks up wealthy American donors with charities abroad. For example, LEADS is a Sri Lankan relief group that has worked with Tearfund, a British umbrella group. Another possible route: contacting organizations in immigrant communities where you live that may be providing direct...
According to many students, such a system is long overdue. When Eric I. Kouskalis ’07 tried to obtain a transcript for applications to summer schools while away for a semester in Namibia, he encountered what he called a “month-long ordeal...
...introduced from Yugoslavia, and Chery still has to meet U.S. safety and emissions standards. The real threat will come from foreign makers in China with nowhere to sell their cars. "If they can compete on price, Ford and Nissan will likely start exporting" to America within a decade, predicts Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii who researches China's auto industry. The Cherys you'll soon see in car lots could be the vanguard for Detroit's own made-in-China cars. --By Matthew Forney/Beijing
...Then the survivors will need another army of donors to piece together the lives they have lost. --Reported by Aravind Adiga/ Kudathanai; Denis Giles/aboard the relief ship MV Sentinel; Robert Horn/ aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln; Carolina A. Miranda and Deirdre van Dyk/ New York; Alex Perry/ Port Blair; Eric Roston/ Washington; and Jason Tedjasukmana/ Banda Aceh
...deficit. The President, while opposing tax hikes, has yet to deliver a concrete proposal. "If you can fix this thing without pain, sign me up," says Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. And if you can escape the propaganda war over Social Security in '05, you're not paying attention. --By Eric Roston...