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...risk with waiting around, though, is that a fund that closed once before in order to protect current shareholders is likely to do it again. One idea that Stanasolovich floats is investing the minimum amount required - often $2,000 - in order to lock in as a shareholder; existing investors normally can keep putting in more money even after a fund is closed...
...cancer patients. Mahila Mandals are women’s groups in New Delhi, India, which Asha created, that educate and care for slum dwellers, providing individual healthcare and advocating for gender issues. Shift to Sudan and Burma, where the Genocide Intervention Network implements an on-the-ground program to protect civilians from attack in the midst of ongoing hostilities. Now fly back West and land in waiting rooms that double as playrooms, and a place where the ills of cancer contrast the elation of Disney paintings in the Jimmy Fund Clinic. We, as a student body, contributed to significant strides...
...just a symbolic gesture of solidarity with those who had died or lost loved ones in the three-day terrorist attacks last week. The marchers were expressing their defiance in the face of those who had come to kill, and also their anger at the authorities for failing to protect their city and anger at the leaders seeking political advantage from the tragedy. Amid the mounting outrage at the authorities, the central government's Home Minister, Shivraj Patil - already under pressure in the wake of previous attacks - resigned, claiming moral responsibility for the attacks...
...siege of Mumbai may be over, but the political casualty count is mounting. As senior ministers resign their posts in the face of public outrage over what many see as the authorities' inability to protect the country from terrorist attacks, India's political parties are girding themselves for an election year that promises a bruising battle over security. The local media may have branded the storming of some of Mumbai's most iconic sites as "India's 9/11," but the nonpartisan unity displayed by U.S. politicians in the wake of the 2001 attacks is nowhere to be seen in India...
...There are two lessons we should be taking away from Mumbai. The first is that all large cities are vulnerable to attack. Even if it doubled the size of its police force, there is no way New York City could could ever protect its hotels, schools or other public buildings from attacks of this type, short of turning them into fortresses. There is no way for the NYPD to prevent a car bombing on Wall Street, sending the stock market into an even worse plunge, or a single suicide bomber from blowing himself up in the subway. Plans are available...