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...year. "They don't even listen to each other." Pelosi's initial goals, which she says she wants to accomplish in the Democrats' first 100 legislative hours in power, are modest and relatively uncontroversial. She would have the House pass bills aimed at raising the minimum wage, cutting student-loan interest rates, allowing the Federal Government to negotiate directly with pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients, and reforming lobbying practices...
...appeals. These women are forming relationships with banks because they have demonstrated their eligibility to participate in the global economy on terms the world already understands. They are slowly proving to big businesses, American included, that they are worthy clients on the same level as more traditional loan recipients...
Yunus and others like him have begun to link the global network of financial services to potential customers who have long been without it and are often both physically and metaphorically a world away. With each micro-loan they narrow this gap, convincing those at both ends of the mutual benefits that they see possible. They are modern explorers of a universe in which the best way to bridge a divide between two worlds is for each to take a step toward the other...
...would be like, in medicine, teaching with textbooks and slides and never seeing a real human being. A museum and collection is to art history what a laboratory is to science. You need access.” Many of the works in this world-class collection have been on loan to the Harvard University Art Museums, and will now become part of the permanent collection, to be fully displayed pending the completion of the major museum renovations. —Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu...
...perhaps the most compelling aspects of her story involve the juxtaposition of her evolution and the French-born Moussaoui's worldview and hatred of the social values from which she had benefited. During one prison visit, for example, Moussaoui criticized el-Wafi's having taken out a bank loan to build the family house in Narbonne to avoid living in housing projects. Moussaoui also told her she was wrong not to have taken her kids back to be raised in Muslim Morocco...