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...coffee." Its coffee had "floral top notes of lemon ... sweet, caramelized sugar and wild honey evolving into the heady, well-toned presence of chocolate, dried fruit and dark cherry notes." Who knew? Not Rwandans, who don't drink the stuff. But they did notice the extra change in their pocket, and how foreigners were queuing up to buy their beans years in advance. "Suddenly, they're making more than $1 a kilo, up from 25 cents," says Schilling. Other farmers noticed too. Almost overnight, 116 copies of Schilling's washing stations sprang up nationwide. "The impact is huge, just huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds of Change in Rwanda | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...alone appears quite paltry. Strangely, one never hears nearly as much bitterness over the obscene growth rate of tuition—money spent largely on ever-increasing appendages to an administrative infrastructure whose value and necessity is left unquestioned. Any student who cannot front that extra sum out of pocket likely has their tuition and board remitted; a summer job or low-interest loan can painlessly cover the difference...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Flying the Coop | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...this semester which require students to purchase a coursepack (still not available online) in addition to multiple books. The prices for these coursepacks: $203 and $170. Lucky for me, my fantastic parents often reimburse me for my book expenditures. For students, rich and poor, who are paying out of pocket, this is simply unacceptable...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran | Title: Cooperative Injustice | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

Halfway through the overcomplicated setup we’d devised for an iPod giveaway during the a capella jam, Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09 pulled a white box from his jacket pocket. “What a coincidence! I happen to have a brand new iPod nano right here!”“You know what I think we should do with it? I think we should give it to a member of the Harvard class of 2011!” The audience that packed Sanders Theater drowned out my last few syllables with screams, whoops...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's 'Love Story' | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...opening. And Bush wasn’t even blessed with Dunster House’s newest space-saving technique: beds with extra high legs accommodating two pint-sized dressers that fit into the space below. Jonathan K. Nguyen ’09 didn’t find this Polly Pocket setup very cute. “When I first saw the room, I was kinda like, ‘crap,’” said Nguyen. However, always the innovative Harvardian, Nguyen has moved the offending dressers to the next room over, while the space-saving hutch that...

Author: By Diane J. Choi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Trapped in the Closet | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

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