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...reduce a gap between rich and poor that sees 45% of national income going to 10% of the wealthiest households. His government has delivered programs such as the Zero Hunger initiative, which aims to put food on the poorest familes' tables. Since 2002, Brazil has posted low inflation, rising gdp and a strengthening currency. But in the slums, signs of progress prove as elusive as the rats that dart between the shacks. Wilson, 15, lives in the favela of Heliópolis, where half the 125,000 inhabitants are under 25. The vast majority come from Brazil's hardscrabble northeastern...
...Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin announced that student groups’ donor gift accounts, which allow alumni to earmark their Harvard donations for specific student groups, will face a 15 percent tax on all withdrawals. The tax will start at 5 percent this fiscal year and rise an additional 5 percent per year to 15 percent in the 2009 fiscal year, and this year’s tax is retroactive to July 1. Although this tax assessment had been previously applied to other University gift funds, there was no reason given for the sudden inclusion...
...Chicago native, Patrick’s rise from a hardscrabble past—he grew up in poverty but won scholarships to Harvard and served in the White House—endeared him to the state’s liberal Democratic primary electorate. Appointed chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division during the Clinton administration, Patrick also served as general counsel at both Coca-Cola and Texaco. He was a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers from...
...Nations and through the International Compact with Iraq endorsed here in New York yesterday. We will continue to train those of you who stepped forward to fight the enemies of freedom. We will not yield the future of your country to terrorists and extremists. In return, your leaders must rise to the challenges your country is facing, and make difficult choices to bring security and prosperity. Working together, we will help your democracy succeed, so it can become a beacon of hope for millions in the Muslim world...
...Islamic world, Ahmadinejad isn't nearly as popular at home. Even in the eyes of low-income Iranians, his most loyal supporters, the President now seems less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats. A year into his first term, prices continue to rise, the economy is stagnating and people no longer debate whether Ahmadenijad has any surprise remedies in store. My family's weekly lunches, which used to devolve into loud arguments between Ahmadinejad's supporters, who claimed him as Iran's savior, and critics, who called him a religious thug, now center...