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...allow people to hold on to earnings. He is also likely to find savings in social services to cut France's spiraling public debt. Another area where Sarkozy is expected to act quickly - perhaps in July - is with a series of measures that stiffen punishment for criminals and youth offenders in particular, while elsewhere tightening rules and requirements for immigrant applicants seeking to join the heads of families in France. Another issue Sarkozy has promised to tackle is the labor strikes that have entirely shut down public transport in the past...
...year-old reporter for a Warsaw youth newspaper, Ryszard Kapuscinski had never set foot outside Poland. Then, one day in 1956, his editor called him in and said he would be going to India as the paper's first foreign correspondent. Almost as an afterthought, the editor handed him "a present for the road" - a Polish translation of Herodotus' The Histories. For the next four decades, that book was the journalist's traveling companion through war, peace and journalism in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. As Kapuscinski writes in the newly published English translation of Travels with Herodotus...
...story while wide awake but that sleeping is out of the question because the movie is too noisy. I had no idea what the characters were doing but I loved watching them do it. My husband said if they make another one, it will be about the fountain of youth. I responded, "Oh, Lord, you mean they might make another...
...achieved almost every honor available at Harvard. While a junior, he was one of a select group of students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. As an applied math concentrator, he has been a head course assistant for several classes. His senior thesis, which was about the education of homeless youth, won the Hoopes prize for outstanding scholarship. And recently he was awarded Mather House’s Scholar Citizen prize by his masters and tutors. Next year Sarkar is taking his interest in quantitative social science across the Atlantic. He will be studying evidence-based social work at Oxford with...
...culture. Leng, a government concentrator, threw herself into her work with Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). Though she did not join the organization until the spring of her sophomore year, she spent a summer co-directing the Summer Urban Program and worked year-round with the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) program. “Harvard’s always been an alienating place because I’ve never been around these people from privileged backgrounds,” Leng says. “There aren’t too many Cambodian refugees in Boston.” Through...