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...their labor - have suffered heavy losses through violence and theft. The criminals are said to be opportunists and not necessarily part of an organized group, but the relative inefficiency with which the government dealt with the violence poses the question: How long before mobs turn on the middle and upper income groups to kill them or drive them out of the country? And what (if anything) will the government do to protect the heartbeat of its economy? Ryan Moore, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA...
...University also prioritized a new financial aid initiative catering to upper-middle class families that had been in the works prior to this year, pushing forward the program’s release in response to governmental pressure, according to one University official...
...this seems a little sparse considering the extreme force with which European “expansion” impacted the economics and politics of the modern world), require no readings from non-Western authors. Therefore, while students are free to study the works of colonized writers in departmental or upper-level history courses, their introduction to “history” must be on the terms of the imperialists. It is a shame that in the age of the free flow of information, history at Harvard is still a tale told by the victors...
...Serb capital was gripped by violent protests that included an attempt to torch the U.S. embassy, life became in Mitrovica became dangerous for Serbian and foreign journalists covering local demonstrations: Several had their cameras smashed; some were beaten. A Serb reporter who freelances for foreign news agencies had his upper teeth knocked out; he works his contacts more carefully...
...Increase in Harvard’s financial aid budget as part of a 2007 initiative to reduce expected contributions from middle- and upper-class families...