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...Finances Naturally, some Londoners are worried that organizers won't be able to stick to their ?9.3 billion ($14.8 billion) budget and taxpayers will end up shelling out any extra money required. Of the public Olympic financing bodies, the British government is kicking in nearly ?6 billion ($9.5 billion), the National Lottery ?2.2 billion ($3.5 billion) and the city government ?1.2 billion ($1.9 billion). There's also a second budget of ?2 billion ($3.2 billion) that is being privately funded. Still, it's difficult to say how much will eventually be spent to host the event. "No one will ever...
...believe the people of the U.S. and its allies have the perseverance it will take to make Afghanistan a viable state. The alternative, however, is regional instability that will violently challenge the West for decades. Wouldn't it be preferable to stick to our task and improve our methods - for example give the locals more of a stake as the author suggested - than to leave and relinquish our gains? Nancy Schimkat, WEINHEIM, GERMANY...
...addition to the site had a roughly equal chance of surviving editors' scrutiny. Over time, though, a class system emerged; now revisions made by infrequent contributors are much likelier to be undone by élite Wikipedians. Chi also notes the rise of wiki-lawyering: for your edits to stick, you've got to learn to cite the complex laws of Wikipedia in arguments with other editors. Together, these changes have created a community not very hospitable to newcomers. Chi says, "People begin to wonder, 'Why should I contribute anymore?'" - and suddenly, like rabbits out of food, Wikipedia's population stops...
Although Harvard fell short to its non-conference opponent, the team proved it could stick with one of the top teams in the nation...
...cases are more likely to go unreported as people are afraid of being laid off. For his part, Raj works in fear that he will be fired because of the animosity that exists between him and his supervisor, and he believes that his co-workers are too afraid to stick up for him because of fears for their own jobs. Do we have a good enough system in place to ensure that Harvard employees are safe to defend their rights, whether on their own or as a member of any union? It would be difficult to look...