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Lisa M. O’Loughlin, who was entering the Harvard Square station yesterday, said that the repeated rise in ride fares has made her question the MBTA’s management of its budget...
...work reimburses me, but even if [fares] don’t impact me directly, it really stinks that it might go up and up and up,” said Dallas R. Menard, who was adding money to his Charlie Card at the Harvard Square T station yesterday...
Guilin's main drag is Zhongshan Lu, running from the railway station toward Solitary Beauty Peak and Folding Brocade Hill - both featuring prominently on tourist itineraries led by flag-waving, fact-quacking guides. But Zhongshan itself is carpeted with an enticing parade of hawkers: barbecued-meat vendors alternate with bootblacks banging their brushes together to attract custom, grizzled farmers hunch over mounds of dried persimmons, and pickled-vegetable sellers rub shoulders with eco-entrepreneurs whose handwritten signboards tout for secondhand MP3 players...
...There is immense competition in the job market, but there are also opportunities which Tibetan youngsters have failed to utilize," says Karma Yeshi, an MP in the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, who also runs the Voice of Tibet radio station. "There is demand for translators from Chinese to Tibetan and back, for example, but few students have the guidance to know this. Is there a single Tibetan who has studied Chinese policy? International law? U.N. mechanisms?" he asks with more than a dash of criticism, adding, "Enthusiasm and intentions are necessary, but good education is also needed...
...Only this sport can help me secure my future, allow me to feel freer," Hassanzade told French radio station RTL of the protection that citizenship will provide him. "I want to compete in European and World championships, representing France, and I want to sing La Marseillaise. People who know me already see me as French. They don't think I'm a nothing...