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...working hard to understand what he might have done differently: he laid out in detail how he had reflected on whether or not he should have landed Air Force One in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and argued passionately that in retrospect, he made the right decision in not burdening local officials with his presence...
...more of a legal necessity than an opportunity. "We are required to have eight women if we're going to win," al-Hais says, responding to his wife's irritation. Na'if suggests that one advantage is that women are less corrupt. "We prefer to have women in the local councils because women won't steal money from the council - maybe just a little for their makeup," he says, chuckling...
Since 2008 Grameen has collected 1,700 borrowers in New York City, and last June it opened a second branch in Omaha, Neb. Other cities in its sights include San Francisco, Boston and Charlotte, N.C. - anywhere local businesspeople raise seed capital and a bank will host low-cost savings accounts for borrowers with just a few dollars, since savings are a key part of the Grameen philosophy. "There are whole populations that aren't being reached by the banking sector," says Bob Annibale, director of microfinance at Citibank, which partners with Grameen in New York. Like other financial giants, Citi...
...According to Donald E. McGough, director of the Boston Office of Emergency Preparedness, $4.6 million has been invested since 2004 to install the network of cameras that runs through the nine cities and towns comprising the Boston Metropolitan Area. While the operation of individual cameras is left to local police departments, the network is supervised by the Office of Emergency Preparedness, which can take control of the cameras with local permission. The Cambridge Police Department did not respond to interview requests regarding the surveillance program. McGough said that the network “can and will be used...
...warm bed, breakfast, and consistent shelter—hard to find, especially in difficult economic times.Over the last two years, Yelbi has gone from being a hopeful, college-bound high school senior, to living day-to-day on a meager income garnered from tutoring jobs at a local community college. He sleeps by night in one of the few relatively-safe homeless shelters in the Cambridge area, including the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, a student-run organization affiliated with the Phillips Brooks House Association.The events that made him homeless would also connect him to a group of Harvard students, volunteers...