Word: personalism
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...roughly 20-person chapter has focused on coordinating donations for research centers like the fledgling one at Kenyatta, but Dudnik said the organization—which also has chapters at Yale Medical School, Boston University, Mount Sinai Medical School, and Albert Einstein College—is expanding to help scientists in the developing world achieve parity in other ways as well...
...this has made these 15 Senators - three of whom, including Reid, Bennet and Arkansas's Blanche Lincoln, are facing tough races next November - top lobbying targets of pro-life groups. And the person they expect to be wrangler in chief of this nervous group? Casey. "He's our No. 1 target to influence others," says Joy Yearout, spokeswoman for the Susan B. Anthony List, a national pro-life fundraising group that has seen activity increase 50% in the past two years (the group is already running $130,000 worth of commercials against Reid). "Casey ran as a pro-life Democrat...
During yesterday’s meeting, Council members worked to put an end to the confusion and to understand why the seven person Election Commission—just minutes away from announcing the next Council president—voted to decertify election results Thursday night out of fear of voting irregularities...
...That's not just a concern for the Sunshine State, which now has one of the nation's highest jobless and home-foreclosure rates. Earlier this year, the Associated Press found that across the U.S., the stimulus plan was "set to spend 50% more per person in areas with the lowest unemployment than it will in communities with the highest." In Illinois, President Obama's home state, a Chicago Public Radio investigation this fall found that less than 10% of the Department of Transportation's stimulus contracts had gone to "disadvantaged business enterprises," or DBEs, even though the state says...
...issue ration cards without a supporting document. A tea-shop worker in Mumbai told me he bought one for Rs. 5,000 ($111). Meanwhile, the ration card is a step toward a passport. In theory, passports are difficult to get; police officers are supposed to visit you in person to verify your identity and address. However, according to an entrepreneur who helps set these things up, as long as you don't have an arrest record, the police will skip that formality -for a few hundred rupees. There is no need for counterfeit documents; for a fee, authentic ones...