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Notice his shout out to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, conspicuously absent from his first email. FlyBy wonders if this caused any unrest within the Registrar this past week. He also really went for conciseness here, cutting out "Friday" when referencing "May 29th" (a whole week after finals are over! First agenda for the summer, eh?), and saying "I encourage you to complete all of your evaluations this term" instead of "I encourage you to complete evaluations for all of your courses this term"--saving you one word of reading...
...terms of the peace accord signed in November 2006, could have led to a military coup. But while the government's reconciliatory decision succeeded in keeping power and pulling a fragile peace process back from the edge, the Maoists now find themselves tasked with trying to stamp out growing unrest amid their own ranks - the former insurgents of the People's Liberation Army...
...given other jobs per the terms of the accord. "Some 5,000 have left - they just got tired of waiting," says Kosmos Biswokarma, spokesman for the U.N. mission in Nepal. "The rest are getting impatient. They want decisive action." Prachanda's biggest problem now will be containing this unrest and finding a solution. Until then, "the first great world experiment of the 21st century" - as Prachanda described the Maoists' political ascension in Nepal in November 2006 - may only yield more instability for the people of this tiny Himalayan nation...
...that China's communist rulers, fearful of social unrest that can force them from power, will succeed in buying their way to their target of 8% GDP growth, the magic number that will supposedly ensure that enough of the 1.3 billion population will have jobs. The central government has already started spending $585 billion in fiscal stimulus, second in size only to America's $787 billion (and counting) package. A second stimulus package valued at 130 billion renminbi ($19 billion) is expected to be unveiled soon...
...chance that China's GDP growth will pick up as the year goes on, it is because consumer consumption within the country has not fallen apart. But, one of the issues that the government mentioned as a hurdle to growth was labor unrest and unemployment. Growing joblessness is almost certain to undercut the ability of the middle class to pull China out of its slowdown...