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...said. “You have to deal with so many other issues with these students, and you have to deal with so many stigmas attached to institutions of higher learning in general—and Harvard in particular.”Selling Harvard on rural reservations proved an even greater challenge. Native Americans there “view Harvard or institutions of higher education in general as foreign institutions coming in to change who they are and indoctrinate them in another society,” he said. Hutchinson said that staffs of such schools could be very unwelcoming...
...First National Bank of Hope, Kans., a town where the noon whistle blows daily for its 400 residents, has survived all kinds of competition. The rural bank has remained independently owned for its entire 83 years, even through the Great Depression, says Dan Coup, its president and CEO. But Coup is worried that his bank may not survive what he sees on the horizon: Wal-Mart. "They could run us out of business in a heartbeat...
...session last week near Washington attracted a parade of Wal-Mart's regular adversaries--unions, corporate activists, small-business owners--along with bankers, individuals and experts on both sides. But most comments came from rural America, so the agency will hold another session next week in Overland Park, Kans. Coup will testify there, along with other bankers who believe that their businesses will soon be the next to feel the weight of Wal-Mart...
...Maryja for its anti-Semitic outbursts). Szczuka's face was splashed across the right-wing press. "It was horrible, a crazy attack," she said last week. "It reminds me of socialism of the 1970s and '80s." These controversies do not appear to have lost pis its core support in rural Poland. There, unemployment and poverty levels are higher than in the cities, and many are ready to blame free-market reforms for their woes. Though the Kaczynskis' personal approval ratings have fallen, new elections today would provide the same result as six months ago, pollsters say. But neither...
...Kurdistan," says Magne Normann, DNO's senior vice president and Iraq project director. "It's a stepping-stone for moving into the rest of Iraq when the time is right." Last November a television campaign funded by the Kurdistan Development Corp. was launched on U.S. networks showing serene rural scenes, using the slogan the other iraq. Still, that message has not translated for some. "People in the States think I'm living in the desert, one step ahead of someone who wants to put me in an orange jumpsuit," says Harry Schute, a consultant to Kurdistan's Interior Ministry...