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...money would not come without some strings. "It's happening with the [$700 billion bank-bailout] program, where there is no strategy, and we're just throwing money out there," said Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat. In addition to monthly updates on the Big Three's progress, many members of Congress want an oversight board or a single trustee to be empowered to win concessions from employees, retirees, dealers and creditors that are essential for any long-term restructuring plan to work...
...sources of that anger are not just economic. India has made little progress in resolving its decades-old dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir; in the meantime, the Indian troops who occupy it have turned the state into a swamp of resentment and virulent anti-Indian sentiment. The most raw grievance is the 2002 violence in the western state of Gujarat: nearly all of the 2,000 victims were Muslim, but only a handful of cases have been prosecuted. Gujarat, Kashmir and the 1992-93 anti-Muslim violence in Mumbai - in which hundreds were killed yet only three people convicted - have...
...ruin a staffer’s in the process.Unfortunately, FAS cannot rule out layoffs to inch closer to the $200 million mark. The question for students is how to weigh them against our concerns—and the only answer is equally. The administration will probably need to delay progress in Allston; housing renovations may not happen as quickly as we would like. We should be prepared for FAS to spare no one, and rightfully so. There is no question that this will diminish our quality of life and dim students’ prospects in the near future. But that...
...with the prisoners they tutor, such as prohibitions on contact with prisoners after release and sharing personal information. Getting inmates to focus can also be a challenge, given the prison’s bureaucracy and the amount of material to cover, and several volunteers described a sense of frustrated progress. But tutors say that challenges are worth it: “We have to realize that even just being here and listening to them is a huge service,” volunteer Jessica K. Bryant ’09 says. Several volunteers have built personal friendships with prisoners, which give...
Even as we absorb the implications of the global financial crisis and plan for how we might react to it, our commitment to provide our undergraduates with an unparalleled academic experience remains as strong as ever. Progress continues with our new Program in General Education and with planning for our ambitious House renewal effort. It is about the latter initiative that we are writing today...