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Percentage of businesses surveyed that said they are conducting some type of holiday celebration this year, a 9% drop from 2006 and the lowest percentage of office partying since the holiday season following Sept...
...this immortal French culture means that there also still exist strong Italian, Spanish, Romanian and English cultures. So why do the media refer to African culture but hardly ever to Nigerian culture, distinct from Kenyan or Algerian culture, for instance? Perhaps it's easier to focus on the lowest common denominator of the African experience than on the unique cultural signifiers that every African country possesses as much as does the land of Proust, Monet, Piaf and Truffaut. Tolu Ogunlesi, ABEOKUTA, NIGERIA...
...through carbon-trading systems that include offset payments. These are payments made by those who want to reduce their emissions to others whose efforts, like planting trees, will do it for them. These offsets can now be bought and sold in a global market that seeks out the lowest cost and most efficient ways of reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. In the absence of such payments, the poor of the developing world will have no choice but to exhaust the land and become environmental migrants...
...family making $120,000 per year currently pays about $19,000 to Harvard, which would be reduced to about $12,000 under the new initiative. Fitzsimmons added that the admissions office hopes the program will encourage students to choose the college which offers the best fit, not the lowest cost. Families making between $60,000 and $200,000 find themselves in a “real state of crisis” with respect to paying for college, Fitzsimmons said, as they are neither poor enough to receive exemption from tuition fees nor are they rich enough to absorb the high...
Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Randall S. Sarafa ’09 will be taking the reins of the Undergraduate Council in the coming year, winning a race that featured the lowest voter turnout since the council began popularly electing its top officials in 1996.The total number of ballots cast dipped nearly 40 percent from last year to 2,181, with the winning ticket garnering 66 percent of the first-place votes. The low voter turnout may have been due in part to the established reputations of Sundquist, currently the council’s vice president...