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...part of a global trend, but in Fiji the country's land-ownership policies have exacerbated the problem. Laws passed in the 1970s obliged non-indigenous farmers to take 30-year leases on the land they worked. As the leases expired, the Government encouraged indigenous Fijian landowners not to renew them, but instead to farm the land themselves. The non-indigenous farmers were given cash payouts to leave, but their workers received nothing...
...Farming families like the Kumars, from the Nanuku squatter settlement on the coast near Suva, were among those who lost their farms and were driven into the city in the late 1990s. "My father and I went twice to the landowners to ask them to renew the lease," says Rohit Kumar. "But both times they refused. I was crying when I left. I was looking around seeing this place I had grown up farming, seeing the place where I used to play as a little boy." Today Kumar, his wife and four children are crammed into...
...proximity of the Houses they live in as well as what terminal they will be traveling from or to, in order to make it easier to share a cab. Essentially, the UC is spending $1,000 of students’ termbill money (more if it decides to renew the service beyond the current two-and-a-half month contract) on a website that House lists, or a cheaply developed message board, could do just as well. Furthermore, the new Web site will face a considerable activation energy barrier to its success—the number of users will have...
...this experience to guide the rest of his still-relatively-young tenure, he will not be the fallen star that many have prematurely labeled him. Deval Patrick’s campaign slogan was “Together we can,” a hopeful message that urged citizens to renew their confidence in a state government that had disenchanted many. We urge Patrick to prove that the slogan was more than just an alluring ditty that played well in focus groups. But it is certainly not time to lose faith in Patrick entirely. After all, a few missteps...
...member of the athletic administration said that Nichols Family Director of Athletics Bob Scalise made the final decision not to renew Sullivan’s contract, which is set to expire after this season. The Crimson finished 12-16 overall and 5-9 in league play this year...