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...zero-rupee note attacks this social problem through social, rather than political, means. Various news sources have reported that officials are often shocked and shamed when given the note and quickly perform the necessary service without a bribe. One man who was overcharged for a car-parking fine, Ashok Jain of Chennai, immediately shamed the attending policemen into charging him the correct fee by handing them a zero rupee note, and an old lady who had been fighting for a land title for years gave the note to a local official and finally received the document after over a year...
...dinner, toasts were given by the oldest recipient of the scholarship present, Charles Hoppin, followed by the second oldest and then by a member of the Wendell family, Nathalie Wendell Thomas...
Outside of class, Lenfield is a Ledecky Fellow at Harvard Magazine, a position rarely given to sophomores. He has also worked at the Radcliffe Institute for the past two years, and is one of 10 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows—a program encouraging minority students to pursue Ph.D.s...
...This tournament, we did something that I don’t believe we’ve done all season,” Grillo said. “We were forced to drop one score from our top two players in each round, which, given how we’ve been [performing] all season, is the opposite of how we’ve been playing...
Since 1980, Nobel medals have been made of 18-karat green gold and then plated with 24-karat gold. Given the medal’s unmistakable design and mold, an attempt to sell the medal would be difficult...