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...worsened. Morgan Stanley estimates that GDP per capita has decreased by 2.5% annually over the past eight years. While the economies in other populous developing countries such as India and China roar ahead, crucial foreign investors continue to shun Indonesia due to the threat of terrorism, rampant corruption (a survey conducted last year by Berlin-based watchdog Transparency International ranked Indonesia as the 12th most corrupt country in the world), an often whimsical legal system, high labor costs and an obstructionist bureaucracy poisonous to commerce. Last year, investors pulled $597 million in investment capital out of Indonesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's New Deal | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

HUDS’ most significant programmatic change was last year’s introduction of seasonal menus that greatly improved variety and quality, and which rely heavily on more expensive but worthwhile local and seasonal products. As a result, the student satisfaction survey showed a 12 percent improvement in areas of both taste and freshness between the Spring 2003 satisfaction survey and that of Spring...

Author: By Ted A. Mayer, | Title: HUDS Bases Decisions on Undergraduate Needs | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...have to work hard to convince most people that a group that exults in televised decapitation is beyond negotiation. The crisis shows why there are two British Prime Ministers gearing up for the general election expected next May. One faces a feckless and disunited opposition and consistently tops opinion surveys, even when his policies are being cluster bombed in the newspapers. The other faces a much harder task. Polls by MORI show that 61% are dissatisfied with him, and only 32% trust him to tell the truth. Old allies have abandoned him; rivals leak venomously to bring him down. Both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War at Home | 9/26/2004 | See Source »

...very first day of the murder trial for Alexander Pring-Wilson, only 32 percent of respondents to a Court TV survey said his Harvard affiliation would work to his advantage...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: With a Harvard Student as the Defendant, the Case Could Swing Either Way | 9/24/2004 | See Source »

...done. Dining is an area of college life where what students want ought to take precedence over almost all other matters. Unfortunately, it is far from clear that students in any sense want this change. Given that HUDS’ evidence is limited to vague responses to broad survey questions, the assumption that the switch to generic brands would be doing students a favor is probably a bit hasty...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Goodbye Cheerios | 9/22/2004 | See Source »

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