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...backed Odinga. In this environment, even Kenya's booming economy - with growth surpassing 6% in 2007 - adds fuel to the fire. Many Kenyans felt that this prosperity was passing them by while others were getting more than their fair share. Ethnic inequality is a dangerous and highly effective tool for politicians keen to whip up resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: From the Ground Up | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...doled out peaks of Toblerone we’d purchased at the Autogrill, it takes the award for craziest. Since my grandfather had arrived at Ellis Island on a boat from Naples in 1925, the goal of this reverse voyage was to locate Papa’s birthplace, tool around the town, drink a caffé, and say we’d visited...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All Roads Lead to Iacurso | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...come out in four editions since its first publication in 1998.Economics chair James K. Stock is known for complaining in class about this practice, although not about “Principles of Economics” in particular.“New editions are to a considerable extent simply another tool used by publishers and textbook authors to maintain their revenue stream, that is, to keep up prices,” Stock wrote in an e-mailed statement.He said that while he requires his own book for his class, he encourages students to buy older editions and international copies, and said...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and Benjamin M. Jaffe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professors Find Differents Uses for Textbook Profits | 3/4/2008 | See Source »

Thurman, who is the father of actress Uma Thurman, noted that guilt is a “useful emotion” as a tool of mental self-discipline and prevents people from harming each other...

Author: By Josh M. Zagorsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Describe Guilt in 3 Disciplines | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...time of Islam's founding, such policies were revolutionary and far more progressive than those practiced by Christian and Jewish societies. Islam's problems, she contends, only began with the calcification of its progressive traditions in the 15th century, when the religion was reduced to a tool to consolidate the power of the Ottoman Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Divided | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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