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...sweaters, and many Bangladeshi millionaire textile exporters drive about the streets of Dhaka in new Mercedes-Benz. But for all its achievements, the country has also seemed like a political experiment designed to find out just how much corruption a modern nation can withstand before it ceases to function. "We are hurtling toward disaster," warns Qazi Faruque Ahmed, president of Proshika, a prominent Bangladeshi ngo that runs schools and voter-education programs...
...factories by extortionists asking for money. He once refused to pay up. The result: his workers were attacked on their way to work, and the extortionists threatened to do damage to his factories. In the end, he closed one of them down. For truckers, the token scheme ceased to function about a year ago. The result is that on average a truck on its way from Dhaka to the port city of Chittagong, the country's most important commercial route, is stopped 8-12 times by extortionists. Trucks are frequently hijacked at night, and drivers who attempt to fight...
...ethnic/religious group. A scarcity of roles for women in theater prompted a few undergraduates to form the Athena Theater Company, the Coalition Against Sexual Violence was founded in 1998 to increase Harvard’s existing education and resources regarding sexual assault, and Girlspot was created in 1995 to function as an open forum to voice concerns of queer women at Harvard. At the academic level, Women in Economics and Government, Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe and Women in Philosophy are all dedicated to making their fields more accommodating for female students...
...said that the rest of the world had so much trouble solving the Iraqi puzzle because the state itself was unable to function like a normal government...
...situation has been getting more and more difficult for the universities to function,” said Chair of the Classics Department Richard F. Thomas, who serves on the advisory board of the FFIPP. “It seems to be the job for those of us who feel obliged to support education, which is perhaps the only way of helping both groups get towards an understanding...