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...think the same model of microlending so successful in Bangladesh can be applied elsewhere? Sadruddin Salman, Dhaka Today, Grameen programs are everywhere. We even have a program in New York City, and it works beautifully. We brought the same system as we do in the villages of Bangladesh. We do it in Latin American countries - in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica - in exactly the same...
...White House gates, until Teddy took pity on them during a rainstorm (the voluble T.R. would later enjoy bantering with scribes while getting a shave). Many Presidents required the press to submit questions in writing and barred them from printing direct quotations; access was so limited the New York Times's Arthur Krock won a Pulitzer for scoring a sit-down with FDR. Advances in technology have compelled recent leaders to engage with the media more often, albeit reluctantly. Dwight Eisenhower was the first to allow TV cameras into his press conferences; live telecasts, with all their pomp, began with...
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...York University graduate student Rich S. Carapezza and Cristina Ortiz ’10 stuck to nachos and French bread pizza over Pilsner and knackwurst...
...live-blog the game from a chicken-wing restaurant. At a dinner party the night of the game, word of the Lions' win sparked mixed reactions. "Say what?" one woman asked upon hearing the news. Another dinner attendee, retired auto executive Mark Reynolds, compared the Lions to the New York Mets of 1969 - the year the Mets eschewed their status as one of professional baseball's worst-performing teams by winning the World Series. "They had fans wishing, and praying, that this year, finally, they'd win. But of course, until 1969, they never did," Reynolds said yesterday. (Even Reynolds...