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...Banrie, Thailand's answer to Starbucks. It's a flag-flier for local coffee culture and serves a selection of domestically grown brews prepared the Thai way - with plenty of sugar and coconut milk. "In Thailand we think of coffee as a dessert, so we make it sweet and rich," explains Banrie founder, Saichol Payaonoi. He started the company in 1997 with small shops built alongside up-country gas stations, and he now Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style...
...short answer, say Chinese officials, is the divide between rich and poor, and especially the growing unhappiness among farmers and other peasants who have been left behind by China's rapid economic development. But this is only a partial explanation. Rather than poverty, it is the farmers' sense of powerlessness that sows the seeds of discontent. The central government has promised reforms that would give farmers more control over their lives. Those promises have been broken by corrupt local officials bent on keeping power and wealth for themselves...
...There is a lot of thought in the industrial world as to how it is that the rich countries should help the poor countries. That question is not very intuitive to me because I come from a developing country. My focus is on what the developing countries should be doing, not what we in the United States should be doing,” he said...
...that there are students here whose personal allowances could easily cover their tuition, but my parents and the parents of many of my friends are not at all comforted (and are frequently agitated) by pronouncements from student, staff, and outsider alike that “everyone at Harvard is rich.” Some of us—many of us—are just middle class, and that too contributes to Harvard’s diversity. Mark A. Adomanis ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House...
More rankings and better rankings are both needed if we are to breach the stasis of the U.S. News list. Indeed, a slough of rankings is the only appropriate response to the horrors of quantifying something as rich as a university. One ultimately hopes that the diversity of rankings will reflect the diversity of colleges...