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...council faces a funding crisis. This year the council has been forced to drastically cut back on grants to student organizations. Unless a termbill hike is approved expeditiously by the administration, Gusmorino and Lee likely will find themselves hamstrung by lack of money. It would be a shame if they were unable to accomplish their goals due to the unavailability of funds. With this concern in mind, the council considered a bill on Sunday to withdraw from the Ivy Council...
...article in Newsweek suggests the Arizona senator wants to be seen as a diplomat above the fray, not hamstrung by the exigencies of a political campaign...
...Hamstrung by a critical injury to sophmore middle blocker Justin Denham, the Crimson reordered its lineup in preparation for the match...
...impoverished, India's economy is essentially self-sufficient compared with Pakistan's, which remains a basket case. And despite the fragility of its coalition governments of recent years, India is a stable democracy, while Pakistan has been perennially plagued by military coups and religious extremism. "Its socialist attitudes have hamstrung economic development, but India is a forward-looking democracy," says Dowell. "Pakistan remains a more feudal society whose political elites have kept it mired in its own mess." Given its population size, economic potential and strategic significance, India wants to be thought of as being in the same league...
...with the West for as long as Englishmen have been drinking tea, wearing khaki, playing polo and using words such as "pajama," "pundit" and "pariah" (all of which were imported from the Raj). Dowell concurs: "Despite its vast potential and wealth of human capital, U.S. investors see the country hamstrung by the remnants of a socialist administration - realizing the vast potential of this relationship will require that the U.S. be educated about what India really is, but also that India overcome the internal factors that have restrained its growth. When it does, it will be a major power...