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...fully recover. Over the past five years, Indonesia's gross domestic product (GDP) has on average grown 3.4% annually compared with 6.5% for all of East Asia's developing countries. More than half of the population still lives on $2 a day or less. In recent years, the plight of many has worsened. Morgan Stanley estimates that GDP per capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption...
...spends $46.6 million on charity care, and officials stress that patients are informed by hospital signs and other means that they may be eligible for free or discounted care. CEO Wernick, who repaid the loan, calls the class action against Phoebe frivolous. It implies hospitals "are indifferent to the plight of the uninsured," Wernick continues. "That's just not the case...
...French government’s attempts at appeasement have had little effect on the treatment of its captives.The citizens of Pera, a Genoese colony just across the Golden Horn from Constantinople, viewed themselves as separate from their Byzantine neighbors. They saw no reason to become involved in their plight and engaged in shameful neutrality. They expected to reap rewards for this behavior, and they thought that the Ottoman Sultan would be gracious because of their inaction. They were wrong. The treatment they received was the same as any other Christian town that submitted voluntarily to the Sultan?...
Media coverage in the United States all too commonly refers to the plight of the typical American driver who has now found himself another couple of hundred dollars poorer thanks to fuel costs. Their response is to shake their fist at the Saudis, or Russia or whoever else has been most recently accused of constricting supply; or, if you’re listening to National Public Radio, it’s the oil companies’ fault...
...years, Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) has rendered a service to the Harvard community by pushing the envelope of cover art. In 2002, the cover’s depiction of the Spare Change guy spoke deeply to the cruelty of man by highlighting the indifference of Harvard students to the plight of the poor. In 2003, the sweater vest montage spoke to another equally important social issue—Harvard students’ sense of style, or lack thereof. It should come as no surprise then that HSA’s newest cover does not disappoint, opening our minds?...