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...years, more North Koreans have been able to supplement dwindling government handouts by buying food at private food markets. But reforms have also caused food prices to soar. The price of rice has doubled in the past year, putting it out of reach of most families. Millions of urban North Koreans have reportedly been sent into the countryside to help with spring planting. Pyongyang's propaganda arm recently released photos showing military officers standing beside rice paddies in which volunteer field laborers toiled. Messages exhorting citizens to donate night soil blare from loudspeakers on trucks that drive around cities...
When she arrived at Harvard, Eskander participated in the service-oriented Freshman Urban Program (FUP). She also served as a FUP leader at the start of her senior year. At FUP she says she learned that service is a two-way street...
Following his selection of Rubin, now a director at Citigroup, Summers again turned to an old colleague from his time in Washington: Robert D. Reischauer ’63, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and president of the Urban Institute, a non-profit think tank in the nation’s capital. Reischauer speaks Summers’ figures-based language, and his appointment in 2002—as a replacement for the short-lived Enron director Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65—made...
...students—Ellen Chen, Eric Ho, Nour Jallad, Rick Lam, and Ying Zhou—conceived of their plans before the April entry date of the competition, which was sponsored by MIT’s Special Interest Group in Urban Settlement (SIGUS) and open to Cambridge-based designers...
Nonetheless, the campaign for urban renewal funds was ultimately successful. Thousands of housing units were built, and the slums were demolished...