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...planning any violence, any taking of the Bastille," said Alexander Milinkevich, a presidential candidate and opposition leader, before the march. "I hope the authorities understand this." Evidently not. As protesters started coming to the square, they found that it was blocked by riot police in full gear, forcing them into the nearby Yanka Kupala park. "There were some 20,000 of us packed in the park," Irina Khalip, a Belarusian journalist and human-rights activist, told Time by telephone. "The people were angry with the rigged election, mass arrests and inhuman treatment of the detainees." Khalip says that Alexander Kozulin...
...weekends ago, the Harvard men’s volleyball team shocked the undefeated league leader. On Saturday, the Crimson was out to prove that the win wasn’t a fluke. Harvard found another gear in the final ten points of its games, using its confidence from the previous weekend’s victory to pull off a 3-1 victory (31-29, 30-28, 27-30, 34-32) over East Stroudsburg (ESU) on Saturday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center. The win was the Crimson’s second in eight days over the Warriors...
...Collins (D-Maine) proposed an amendment that would provide an additional $6.3 billion to the discretionary spending for education. The increase in funding would have gone towards raising Pell Grants from $4,050 to $4,500 and restoring programs including the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) and Perkins Loans, both of which were eliminated by President George W. Bush’s recent 2007 fiscal year budget cuts. GEAR UP targets low-income students in an effort to prepare them for higher education and the Perkins Loan is a low-interest loan for students with...
...served to create an inkling of confidence. Companies began to clean house. Entire sectors of the economy were reorganized. Twenty steel businesses became four; nearly two dozen banks became three. Then China's explosive growth and a rebound in the U.S. kicked the fabled Japanese export machine back into gear. Firms began to invest again and, for the first time in almost a decade and a half, people started to look to the future. Unemployment stopped rising, and consumers, very nervously at first, started spending. Slowly, over the past three years a new dynamic has taken hold, such that...
...Musicians and audiophiles, who swear by the warmer sound of older, analog equipment, are also up in arms. Hiroki Kimoto, manager of a shop selling secondhand music gear in Tokyo, says half of the guitar amplifiers in his inventory fall under the PSE. "We don't know what we're going to do. It's ludicrous. I have never heard anyone having safety problems with these machines, but the whole music culture could be affected." Ryuichi Sakamoto, one of Japan's most famous musicians, has moved to the forefront of a group lobbying for the law to be revised...