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Many Poles hope the new government is more apt to address Poland's lingering economic ills, beginning with the fact that nearly one-half the working-age population is not officially working, and public spending still soaks up 45% of GDP. Low investment in infrastructure means that it takes longer to drive from Warsaw to Krakow today than it did 10 years ago. Though the exodus is slowing, some 20% of young Poles seek their first jobs outside the country. "A poor country with a badly structured welfare state cannot become an economic tiger," says Balcerowicz. "If Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking Poland | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...fact is that Harvard’s fate no longer lies in its own hands, and for a playoff berth to happen Dartmouth would have to suffer a breakdown of epic proportions while second and third place Yale and Brown essentially toiled in mediocrity for the rest of the year...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: All Hope Not Lost For the Crimson | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...doing a flip-flop onto it, you basically have to go to the right spot every single time, and that was a little scary. A lot of times, I would see people's hands slipping off, or missing the horse completely." The horse has since been remade longer and wider, to increase safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Gymnastics Safer for Kids | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...None of the musicians involved have any obligatory relationship with the band and, furthermore, if this were merely a phoned-in affair, why the excess of material? At a disorienting fifty-five minutes, it’s nearly twice the length of the band’s debut, and longer than any Stripes album to date.There are redemptive exceptions here that save “Consolers of the Lonely” from true failure. “These Stones Will Shout” makes a successful transition from airy, melodic folk song to righteous stadium-rock workout, enough...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Raconteurs | 4/8/2008 | See Source »

...statement, the school committee expressed “disappointment” over the administration’s actions and believes it “may have violated the public trust.”The committee has also “taken steps to ensure that the administration no longer has access to the school committee’s group e-mail.”Walser said that it is “truly false” that communications with the school committee should always remain private, and said the current committee is “misleading the public?...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Chief Spies on Committee E-mail | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

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