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...reaching more people." The purchases made by those people, economists say, are helping breathe life into the economy, especially in the places where it was suffering. While retail sales in the south actually dropped 0.29% in the year ending May 2006, they rose 16% in the impoverished north and northeast thanks largely to the injection of Bolsa Familia cash, says Marcelo Neri, director at a Rio business school and author of a recent report on inequality. "In some places that were so poor that money practically didn't exist, you greased the wheels," Neri said. "That's because...
...Over the whole of Egypt, plague followed by floods, followed by frogs, and then death of all the firstborn - sorry about that Egypt.'" (Spamalot echoes this in the historian's opening narration: "...In Mercia and the two Anglias: Plague. With a 50% chance of pestilence coming out of the Northeast at 12 miles per hour.") Eventually, Idle recalls, "I became the Grand President and changed the laws and admitted women" - Germaine Greer was one of his first recruits - "and I've been admitting women ever since...
...stretches back to 1996. Heading into the start of Ivy League play this year, both Harvard (5-2-0) and the Quakers (4-2-0) are ranked just behind Brown as favorites to contend for the title. Currently, UPenn debuted this past week at No. 7 in the NSCAA Northeast Regional rankings, while the Crimson came in two spots behind. But with a league opener in which the two teams will play each other, one team may be looking up at the contenders in the Ivy League and a tough road in the remaining six conference games...
After a winless road trip to California, the Harvard women’s volleyball team returns to the colder confines of the Northeast as the Crimson travels tonight to Durham, N.H., to take on New Hampshire (UNH) at Lundholm Gym. The Wildcats limp into tonight’s contest with a 2-10 record. For Harvard, the match will offer a final opportunity to hone its tactics before kicking off its Ivy League slate Friday night against Dartmouth. After losing to all three of the opponents it faced at the San Jose State Hyatt Invitational this past weekend...
...ability of the main alleged plotters to escape justice, mean the verdict "will have very little deterrent value" to avert future attacks. With sectarian violence still rumbling in India?30 people were killed earlier this month by bombs during Friday prayers in Malegaon, a city 300 km northeast of Bombay?a little deterrence might come in handy...