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Despite the challenges facing dance programs in esteemed academic institutions, these Ivies have been attracting more dancers in the past several years than ever before. With its potential for collaboration and sharing of ideas, the Ivy Dance Exchange hopes to further promote this growth...
...discrimination, especially in a tight job market. This could be a good follow-up article. Mark Waddell, the vet you profiled, is still a leader. As a 'Nam vet with PTSD and a veterans' services representative, I think Waddell and his wife are doing more good than they'll ever know...
Lately, the People’s Republic has been in the bad habit of making ever larger investments with questionable African regimes. A week before Obama’s tour, during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao promised to lend Africa $10 billion in low-interest development loans over the next three years and to forgive many older interest-free loans made to less developed nations...
While this sounds rosy enough, even interest-free money isn’t ever really free. Rather than use its economic leverage to stamp out corruption or push for human rights, as the West does, China’s demand is instead a request that African markets open up to the dumping of Chinese products, that participating governments refuse to recognize Taiwan, and that any development contracts are forged exclusively with Chinese companies...
...second reason for the crackdown - as ever with Pyongyang - is control. The government allowed black markets to proliferate this decade out of desperation, but they had grown to the point where the leadership may have begun to feel threatened. Small traders and black markets existed outside of government control, and by definition at some point the regime was not going to tolerate that, analysts say. "The breakaway, snowballing market is a threat to the regime," says Lim Kang-taeg, senior research fellow at the Korean Institute for National Unification, a government-sponsored think tank in Seoul. "This is a significant...