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...Catholic Church that still remembers liberation theology and an Anglo community that still remembers the 1960s, Santa Fe likes to flaunt its status as one of the most progressive towns in the country. Two years ago, Santa Fe struck again. It passed a municipal living wage of $8.50, the highest in the country. With a seven to one vote by the City Council, one in six Santa Feans got a raise. It was a good day. Since Harvard started paying its workers a living wage five years ago, living wage campaigns have been sprouting up all over the country...
Nothing much usually happens in Nalchik, capital of the obscure Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Mostly, tourists come to ski or climb in mountains that include Europe's highest, Elbrus. They buy honey and fruit from roadside markets or enjoy an easygoing approach to nightlife that particularly appeals to travelers from more conservative regions. The sleepy little republic, which is home to a mix of ethnic Russians and Muslims, was also largely free of the insurgency that has set much of the North Caucasus - Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia - aflame. Even when the security services cracked down on alleged radical Islamists, closing...
...Orleanians began to have second thoughts about Nagin. For all his reforms, residents wondered whether their long-awaited antipolitician could realize critical projects like transforming the city's abysmal schools or breaking its dependence on the low-wage tourism industry. In a city suffering some of the nation's highest poverty and crime rates, African Americans questioned whether their concerns fit on Nagin's pro-business agenda. One of New Orleans' leading black ministers, Bishop Paul Morton, even called Nagin "a white man in black skin" a few months after the election...
...Harvard Cooperative Society, also known as the Coop, recently announced that the rebate it provides to members at the end of the year rose to 7.3 percent, up almost 50 percent from the 5 percent rebate members received last year. This total marks the highest the rebate has been in 15 years, according to Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a member of the Coop Board of Directors. The Coop’s fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. At the end of the fiscal year, the Board of Directors sets the rebate rate based...
...firmly runged. But the truth is that they could justifiably be reordered. New York University could be 35th on one ranking and 11th on the other; Harvard first on one and 12th on another. Different methodologies yield different results, and Harvard, for example, would presumably not win the highest points for undergraduate teaching. Perhaps it is also here that college-bound families will feel more satisfied with their station in life and not indulge in their more Darwinist impulses, as has been the case in recent years...