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...people and government," he said. "Corruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya ? The era of anything goes is gone forever." Making good on those promises will be difficult. Once ranked a middle-income country, Kenya is now a pauper. More than half of Kenyans scrape by on less than a dollar a day. Much of the blame for the country's decline can be pinned on Moi and his Kenya African National Union party (KANU), which ruled, until last week, since independence in 1963. In the early years, under the father of independence President Jomo...
After Dartmouth College’s cash-strapped athletic department announced it would cut its swim teams last month, the boyfriend of one of the Big Green swimmers put the team up for sale on eBay, hoping to scrape together the $211,000 needed to keep the team afloat...
...work. Because jobs are available, he will usually manage to get by and integrate into society. In Europe, society is unable to offer jobs and instead puts immigrants on the dole. The largely Muslim immigrants from North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia receive enough government money to scrape by in miserable ghettos where the most entertaining thing to do all day is listen to the radical ranting of a local fundamentalist imam...
...fans weren’t even happy with that. One fan went to the Spectator’s website forum and wrote that “I’m ready for Mike Ditka, Howard Stern or the soon-to-be-unemployed Saddam Hussein if any of them can scrape together a few victories on the gridiron...
...Harvard men’s basketball team played just well enough to scrape by Fairfield last Friday. But it will take a much stronger effort for the Crimson to get past Holy Cross in tonight’s home opener...