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...Morales. Argentine President Néstor Kichner has greatly benefited from a purposefully weak peso, high commodity prices, and huge export dividends resulting from “redistributing” taxes. However, although the federal state grows richer, that money is used to buy off regional caudillos and the poorer classes continue to see their real income liquated. Just like in Venezuela, a rich federal state is renting support, and drowning the press with official propaganda...
...have maintained their scores, and eighth-graders have slightly improved theirs, according to the 2003 "Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study." But other places, like England, Hong Kong and New Zealand, are improving faster, and some, like Singapore and Japan, are miles ahead. Even eighth-graders in much poorer countries like Estonia and Hungary outperformed their U.S. peers, who came in ninth of the 44 nations on the science portion of the test...
...afternoon dip in the Blodgett Pool left one individual hundreds of dollars poorer. Police responded to the MAC last Saturday to investigate a stolen wallet, originally left in a locker. The still-at-large prowler swiped a cool $620 in cash. Talk about taking a bath...
...think Olivia is not seemingly as uncomfortable with the topic as everyone else. I wonder whether if that happens, whether poorer people are more 'let's talk about it.' I think dividing a bill used to be more comfortable in my youth than...
...minor but standout example was pointed out in frustration this past October by Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for the Internet and Society and a well known blogger and activist who focuses on issues of technological development in some of the poorer countries in Africa. In late October a small group of NYU students led a protest in New York outside of a Virgin Megastore to inform consumers of what they thought to be unreasonable copy protection measures put in place by major record labels. Dozens of blogs, Boing Boing among them...