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Homebuilders are eager to start reconstruction--some 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone need to be rebuilt--but supplies may be tight as the city is an import hub for cement and other building materials. Plywood will probably cost more for a while; after Hurricane Andrew, the price shot...
Can the boom times last? Russia has set aside a portion of its oil revenues in a so-called stabilization fund that tops $55 billion, and Moscow is running a budget surplus equal to 7% of GDP. But economists are worried that the Kremlin hasn't used the fat years...
Perhaps the most humiliating characteristic of a typical Harvard student is her lack of experience in the country in which she attends college. Speak to some students admired for being well-traveled and culturally aware, and you will be surprised at how many of them have gleefully globetrotted, proclaiming their...
The future of women’s rights in Iraq appears promisinag, two former government ministers told a small group of students and faculty in the Lowell House Junior Common Room this past Thursday. Former Iraq Minister of Municipalities and Public Works Nesreen Barwari and former Minister of the Environment...
If the reflex response to reform in France is often protest, just imagine tackling the issues that last fall provoked the worst rioting the country had seen since the upheavals of May 1968. But after nearly four decades of neglect, a major offensive is under way to transform the banlieues...