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President Robert Mugabe's policies to stem Zimbabwe's economic meltdown are once more attracting attention of all the wrong kind. Last year, in an operation called Murambatsvina (or "drive out trash"), soldiers destroyed the homes and market stalls of thousands of small traders and opposition supporters and forced many of them to resettle in grim camps or return to their rural homes. Recently, troops have swept rural areas, ostensibly to help boost agricultural productivity by growing food on idle farms. In reality, though, human-rights advocates say the army has begun seizing food from peasant farmers, raising fears that...
...thinking of going back. We don't want to go home and work in a shop and survive, we want to go home and be successful." Not that land is a ticket to wealth. "Most of these estates only existed because they had money coming in from outside," says Robert Balfour, chairman of the Association of Deer Management Groups. Derek Louden, the rural development manager hired to come up with an economic strategy for Assynt's land, believes this can change. He has asked the Scottish Crop Research Institute to find a crop to be farmed for biodiesel...
...ROBERT BAER...
...other faculty members are Lisa Berkman of the School of Public Health, Richard Fallon of the Law School, Amy Hollywood of the Divinity School, Alex Krieger of the Design School, William A. Sahlman of the Business School, Judith D. Singer of the Graduate School of Education, Robert Stavins of the Kennedy School of Government, and Christopher T. Walsh of Harvard Medical School...
...refused to comment on details of the investigation, saying only that it could take up to six months to complete. “Any accident involving injury to workers is very painstaking to conduct,” he said. According to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Director of Communications Robert Mitchell, the construction site where the worker fell at 52 Oxford Street is set to be a new science building. “It’s the Northwest Building,” he said. “Ultimately it’ll be primarily science labs, as well...