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...Maximum average monthly income per person for Shanghai families receiving welfare. Some districts refuse welfare to dog owners...
...Iraq. Whatever the merits of having gone to war in the first place, these forces are doing their best to restore civilized authority over a nation used to dictatorial suppression. Saddam Hussein's regime was not at all innocent, and its agents have been lying low only to inflict maximum damage in the subsequent guerrilla war. Jagmohan M. Manchanda New Delhi...
...potential members of the Class of 2004, applicants to Harvard’s non-binding early action program could simultaneously apply to similar programs at other schools. The policy was in many ways ideal: by letting prospective students apply elsewhere at the same time, Harvard gave them the maximum in flexibility. For the Class of 2007, Harvard made the admittedly questionable move of opening its early application process even further, allowing early applicants to simultaneously apply to another school’s binding early decision program. In addition to various ethical concerns, this newly liberal policy produced an unmanageable spike...
...three years have passed, and my parents and their new “children” are now preparing to move three hours away to a new house. That’s outside what I call the laundry zone, the maximum radius for a spoiled only child to travel home for clean clothes. It’s finally happened: I have been...
...month by month basis among seven different leaders, each with his own distinct agenda. The IGC's problems, however, are not simply rooted in its cumbersome structure. They reflect an absence of consensus among Iraqis over a post-Saddam order. The Kurds favor a federation that would give them maximum autonomy in northern Iraq, but the Sunnis and Shiites are reluctant to see the country divided. The Sunnis, who make up much of Iraq's technocratic elite, are accustomed to power and privilege way beyond their proportion of the population (some 15 percent), and want maximum protection of their position...