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...metric ton last month in India. Wheat has doubled in price in a year and jumped 25% in just one day in February. Reeling from sticker shock, tens of thousands of people have stormed the streets in protest across the Caribbean, Africa and South Asia, demanding that their governments offer relief. They have found bloodshed instead. More than 24 people were killed in Cameroon during food riots in February; five more died in Haiti in March, and two more were killed in protests in Somalia last month...
...University and the American University of Beirut. The LAU can trace its roots back to 1835, when a group of Presbyterians decided to establish a school for women in the Ottoman Empire. Despite the difficulties of providing a first-class education at times of unrest, the LAU continues to offer classes - and students continue to graduate. I firmly believe that education is the way to promote positive change in the Middle East. It will help bridge knowledge and technology gaps with the West, help develop the region's intellectual and human capital, and, most important, help people succeed and live...
...money is also expanding the scope of microfinance beyond small loanmaking. As institutions compete for customers, they are rolling out other services. In Mexico, Citigroup has written more than 1 million life-insurance policies in conjunction with Compartamos, and in India it offers customers savings accounts and ATM access in partnership with microfinancier BASIX. "Not everyone will be an entrepreneur, but most of us have to save for something," says Bob Annibale, head of Citigroup's microfinance unit. Microfinanciers around the world are racing to offer the first real micromortgages. "That we are now talking about creating financial systems that...
...greatest cliffhanger - a big intake of breath before the loop-the-loop-was her line: "Where do we go from here?" Surrender? Never! She sent "the 18 million people who voted for me" to her website, where they could offer advice and much-needed money. While they click vigorously, she will be consulting with "party leaders" to learn what they think she should do-this, Clinton said, on a day when one of her staunch supporters, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, declared the race over and uncommitted super delegates scrambled to endorse Obama...
...vice presidency and other issues or by making an immediate show of her desire to strengthen Obama for the coming fray? A number of Clinton's top advisers, especially in the finance and policy realms, thought Clinton's best course of action was to make herself immediately indispensable: offer her fund-raising team to Obama, offer to barnstorm with him through states where she did well, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, offer to mobilize her key constituencies - like women and Latinos - for Obama in a series of joint rallies. It seemed obvious that if she pressed her unlikely case...