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Harvard Christian Impact, which won $27,950, proposed the creation of a tutoring program that brings together students from Harvard and the University of Pretoria at the Mamelodi Township in South Africa. Former Christian Impact co-coordinator Michael P. Silvestri ’10 said he was inspired to start the program after traveling to South Africa with Christian Impact in the summer...
Silvestri said that he and other members of Christian Impact have worked with officers from the Phillips Brooks House Association over the past year to try to make their education project viable in the long term...
...What [Harvard] students have really proven that they can do well is to get into college. Ironically, that is exactly what these students in South Africa need,” said Harvard chaplain Patrick G. McLeod, who works with Christian Impact. “College education is the ticket...
...harder for officials to manipulate data. Parliament has passed a 20% tax on alcohol and tobacco, and other tax hikes are rumored. This worries executives like Doros Constantinou, the CEO of Coca-Cola Hellenic, which sells soft drinks in 28 countries. "An increase in taxes will have an impact on disposable income," he says. "That's not a good thing...
...nearly 25% of its cargo ships - should also prove immune from the financial maelstrom because of its global reach, according to Theodoros Veniamis, the president of the Union of Greek Shipowners. "Shipping is a cyclical business that operates worldwide," he says. "The current crisis won't have a direct impact." (Read: "Is the Euro the New Dollar...