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...services, he predicts that some planned investments will be revisited in the coming year. "Instead of building a new traffic circle or installing new streetlamps all at once," he says, "we'll have to spread them out over two or three years." But he's most concerned about the impact on his neighbors, some of whom are already in difficulties because their mortgage payments have jumped while their shifts have been reduced. "It doesn't just affect the people who work in the brick factories," he notes. "It affects the truckers who transport the bricks, and the mechanics who take...
...During the recent political standoff in Kenya, Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary General, and a small Swiss organization, the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, resolved the political crisis independent of official efforts, “Small organizations that don’t draw huge attention can have a huge impact on the negotiating process,” said Hirji, the Harvard research assistant...
...daughter who, upon returning to Massachusetts from her grandmother’s house in Delhi, asked, “Daddy, why are we here? Nothing is ever happening here.” Afterward, Goldman inquired about the role of diaspora communities in economic development while Pande brought up the impact of widespread corruption on entrepreneurship. As moderator, Bhabha injected a fair amount of humor into the proceedings, yet he also provided one of the most probing questions: “Why is the China-India question such a hot topic?” Once audience members were invited to participate...
...necessary 270. Despite Monday's unprecedented stock market rebound and Tuesday's campaign announcement introducing a new McCain economic policy proposal, voters largely continue to blame the Republicans for the financial crisis and the gloomy mood of an unstable nation. At the same time, the impact of Obama's massive fund-raising advantage has hit full force, as battleground states are flooded with television ads, direct mail and well-paid armies of local organizers. As Obama's lead has held (and even grown in some polls), pundits and political strategists in both parties have begun to assertively predict an easy...
...hard to say exactly how it will pan out. It did bring the scandal to more people's attention." Georgetown linguistics professor Deborah Tannen, author of The Argument Culture: Stopping America's War of Words, says political apologies are rarely perceived as genuine, leaving in question their impact...