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...Given what the UC stands to pay and what it stands to gain, it seems safe to say that purchasing 45 Mt. Auburn may not be the best idea possible. Current plans seem to call for the UC to shell out millions of dollars for a partial share in a decaying building. Under the current proposal, the building’s top two floors would remain inaccessible to the UC, leaving only the ground floor and basement, which requires heavy renovations to be usable. Even if the project did succeed, the potential improvements to student life to be derived from...
...attacks and escapes carefully. By positioning themselves on the outskirts of the community, Koka's killers were able to lie in wait unobserved, and slip away without witnesses seeing their vehicle. According to a source in the Roma National Council, Koka's killers were careful not to leave a shell casing behind as evidence...
Rageswari, a 40-year-old mother of three in northern Sri Lanka, had been running from bullets, shell fire and artillery fire for more than a year. But last week she and thousands of other Tamil civilians had nowhere else to run, caught between the Tamil Tigers and the advancing Sri Lankan government forces working to retake all the land that has been under rebel control since early 2008. Her village, Periyatampanei, was once part of a vast swath of Tiger territory, but upon the first signs of danger last March, she and her family moved deeper into Tiger-held...
Life is expensive and unbearable for the unemployed - who constitute more than 85% of the working-age population - yet they are "expected to pay bills at the end of the month," says Gonde. Residents in the crowded suburbs of the capital shell out $40 to $65 per month for rent. Water and electricity bills can be as high as $20 even though at least half the time there is no water or electricity. "It defies logic that we pay for electricity we do not have, refuse they do not collect and water that is dirty and frequently unavailable," Majiri rails...
...ways to see the "credit crunch" that helped kick off our broader economic trouble is by looking at how much companies have to pay to borrow money. For the better part of a year, the premium that firms have had to shell out above what investors could alternatively earn on government bonds has been fantastically high...