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...into Mayawati's "disproportionate assets." Mayawati herself has filed papers with election officials indicating she owns 72 properties and has 54 bank accounts. Those records show Mayawati's wealth increased by more than 30 times over the past four years to $13 million - a fact she puts down to generous supporters who have showered her with gifts of jewelry, art and cash. Her aides say that the gifts are all fully recorded and accounted for, and stopped the moment she became Chief Minister. "These are absolutely bulls___ allegations," says Mishra. "She is not guilty of anything." (Mayawati declined numerous requests...
...from the tee will find the fairway, but when golfers err from the straight and narrow, they find themselves in the wilderness of the rough. The Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia is different: being in Southern Baptist country, it gives golfers the benefit of the doubt. Its wide, generous fairways mean the outcome is rarely predestined from the tee. What matters is the endgame - the approach shot and, most crucially, the chips and putts on its devilishly slick greens. This is not to say that Augusta doesn't provide a stern test of a golfer's resolve - a particularly...
...into public service-oriented careers but were previously financially constrained from doing so. They might report on how endowments are spent at different colleges. They might investigate the flawed arguments some politicians are leveling against rich colleges like Harvard for raising their tuition, when aid is so generous that most students don’t actually pay the sticker price (Harvard announced that it would increase tuition by 3.5 percent and financial aid by 21 percent). Finally, they might write about athletics recruiting policies, in the wake of the revelation that Harvard’s new basketball coach Tommy Amaker...
...move means that the Medical School, one of the largest of the elite medical schools, will have a more generous financial aid program than all but a few of the nation’s colleges. The annual cost of attending the Medical School is approximately $65,000, according to school officials...
Maggi has been a leading pioneer on the Brazilian frontier, and it irks him that critics in the U.S.--which cleared its forests and settled its frontier 125 years ago but still provides generous subsidies to its farmers--attack him for doing the same thing except without subsidies and with severe restrictions on deforestation. Imagine Iowa farmers agreeing to keep 80%--or even 20%--of their land in native prairie grass. "You make us sound like bandits," Maggi tells me. "But we want to achieve what you achieved in America. We have the same dreams for our families...