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...break levels of interest. Still, at a campus in which anything and everything inspires debate—from abstinence to alcohol subsidies and single-ply toilet paper—HUDS’ latest effort has not escaped criticism. The new technology deserves few brownie points, but students ought not overlook their good fortune in having a dining service that actually cares—and outclasses any other college caterer. The technology’s extravagance alone calls HUDS’ judgment into question—its estimated $40,000 price tag (HUDS declined to provide any specific figures) hardly justifies...
...supporter of protective tariffs--all anathema to the Democrats of his day. But after the Civil War, Greeley's idealism found a new cause: reaching out to white Southerners by ending Reconstruction. The Democrats, eager to restore the political power of their Southern soul mates, were willing to overlook Greeley's past sins...
Even so, many think she is the best hope for loosening Musharraf's dictatorial grip on the government. Her supporters seem willing to overlook the fact that her previous stints in power were tainted by human-rights abuses and widespread corruption. During her tenure, Amnesty International accused Pakistan of having one of the worst records of extrajudicial killings, torture and custodial deaths, and in 1996 Transparency International named the country the second most corrupt in the world. (Nigeria came in first, locals quip, because Pakistan bribed the corruption-monitoring organization.) But faith, hope and loyalty still run strong in Sind...
...Benazir returned home to acclaim as the savior of Pakistani democracy. If that feat is to be repeated, voters would have to be so desperate to end military rule that they would overlook not only any deal she might strike with Musharraf, but also the widespread human rights abuses and epic corruption that prevailed in Pakistan during her last stint in power...
...Chinese economy during the 1980s and 1990s and praised the country’s private rural entrepreneurship, which he said has proved more successful than government-controlled urban development. Huang, a former Harvard Business School faculty member who has also worked for the World Bank, said Western economists often overlook the establishment of 10 million privately owned rural township and village enterprises in China during the 1980s—which played a significant role in the country’s rapid growth in both GDP and personal income. But those trends were reversed in the 1990s as the government financed...