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...poorer students who would like to go to these places can’t go...they are left with nothing,” he said...
...their lucrative market potential. Nonetheless, in the bidding wars that are a fixture of baseball in the '80s, the wealthier owners can simply buy the better players. Since winning is the best way to draw fans to the park and sponsors to TV and radio, the poor just get poorer. The Cleveland Indians, for example, have managed to hold salaries down to less than half the league average, but they also are 34 games out of first place...
...more competitive than ever before. Yet this flood of hot--and often naive--foreign money into Indian stocks has me spooked. The Indian market has often proved a terrific place to lose money. If you had bet on the Sensex in, say, 1992, you would have been 30% poorer by 2003. But today there is an endless new supply of India-focused mutual and hedge funds, many with wonderfully alluring names like (my favorite) the Monsoon India Inflection Fund...
...ceased a two decades-long war against the north. Where PetroChina dealt solely with the Khartoum government, Sinopec’s revenue-sharing agreement was built into the peace agreement ending the civil war. Harvard’s divestment from Sinopec would theoretically hurt both sides, but the relatively poorer South would hurt more. The complications that arise over Sinopec speak to the difficulty of clearly pronouncing companies guilty of complicity with the genocide in Sudan. Continued divestment proponents are right that Harvard has other holdings with ties to Sudan, but they underestimate the complexities involved in assigning blame, complexities...
However, children in poorer areas were two to three times more likely to be infected to begin with...