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Over $80,000 was awarded last week to 14 Native American tribal initiatives by the Harvard-affiliated Honoring Nations awards program. The program—administered by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development—rewards tribal organizations for strengthening the schools, courts, and infrastructure of sovereign Indian tribes. The winning programs——seven of which received “High Honors” and a $10,000 grant——were selected from applicants representing 41 tribes and seven inter-tribal organizations, according to Honoring Nations Executive Director...
...Sovereign Bank looks innocuous enough from the front: a small, glass storefront alongside a much larger bank. But I was walking alone past this new Harvard Square addition one evening when I heard a startling voice...
...distinguish itself from its virtually identical neighbors, Sovereign has installed a larger-than-life television screen that broadcasts young people telling me about new no-fee checking accounts while also making me think I’m about to get jumped by a drifter. Kudos to you, Sovereign Bank. Nothing makes me relate more to a faceless regional corporate entity than underpaid actors hawking low-interest credit lines by scaring the living shit out of me in the middle of the night...
What is the legal political status of Gaza right now? Is sovereign control in the hands of the Palestinians, now, or do the Israelis continue to maintain ultimate control, as the Palestinians claim...
...exuberance last week, as the long-stagnant Russian stock market started climbing steadily. The benchmark Russian Trading System (RTS) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) indexes rose from 782.4 and 702.3 respectively last Monday to 803.2 and 715.4 by Friday's close. When Fitch Ratings upgraded Russia's sovereign credit rating last week to BBB from BBB-, the picture looked even rosier, and pundits pronounced the post-Yukos gloom to be over. But Mikhail Delyagin, an economist and head of the Moscow-based Institute of Globalization Studies, urges caution. "The indexes are propelled by growing oil prices," he says...