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...Mohammed al-Abaje is understanding about slow salary payments from the Iraqi government. He and other citizens of Baghdad are beginning to realize that the Iraqi government is running low on cash owing to the global financial crisis. "There have been some delays, but we did not have to wait too long for pay," says Abaje, a member of the volunteer Sunni watchmen-fighters known as the Awakening in the Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour. But Abaje, like scores of other Awakening members across Iraq, worries that the pay may dry up altogether. "If the government wanted to end the Awakening...
...medical school subsidized by the government, she says the family-medicine specialty takes five years, not three as in the U.S. But that would require an even longer postgraduation period of low pay and accrual of debt in this country. "I don't think people want to have to wait to pay off all of that debt," says Roshanravan...
...short term, including a proposed great books track, according to Gen Ed committee members. Kenen said that while the committee had been worried that the committee would not receive enough course proposals, those worries were dispelled by a flood of proposals this spring. “Faculty, like students, wait till the deadline to get their proposals in—and after,” said Kenen, who added that about 80 course proposals came in around the March 20 deadline. But former Gen Ed committee member Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08 said that the committee...
Inserting some wait time between the decision to spend money and the actual spending of it is another strategy. Write out a shopping list in advance, then keep to it, says certified credit counselor Alberta Gibbs. Whenever you want to get anything expensive--maybe $100 is your cutoff--don't do it right away. Give yourself a 24- or 48-hour cooling-off period, says Yale University behavioral economist Dean Karlan. If you still want the shoes--or the video game or the wineglasses--a day or two later, then allow yourself to head to the store...
Thank you for the wonderful photos of Obama and our First Family. I could not wait for my issue to arrive. Arlene M. Naulty, MELBOURNE...