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...climate of fear has settled over Iraq's universities at a time when the country needs them most. Iraq's higher education system is slowly being rebuilt, with the aim of training the country's best and brightest to reconstruct a society shattered by tyranny, sanctions and war. But violence has jeopardized those hopes. Academics have become a favored target for terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Iraq and for kidnapping gangs looking for soft targets. A recent nationwide U.N. study says 48 academics have been assassinated. Taher al-Bakaa, who was Iraq's Minister for Higher Education under former Prime...
...Exchange opened its new market for growing businesses, the Irish Enterprise Exchange. Even Deutsche Börse has reportedly eyed a copycat exchange. What's the rush? Alternext is seeking to mirror the success of the LSE's Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Ten years after it opened, AIM now boasts more than 1,100 listings; last year alone, more than 300 companies were quoted, twice as many as in the previous year. The attraction for cash-hungry minnows is obvious. Firms don't need to produce a trading record, and benefit from lighter regulation. But while AIM makes raising capital...
...though they are in coalition with the spd. Doris Janicke, the Green party mayor in the Duisburg city council, is instead working in coalition with the cdu. The two parties agree on the importance of protecting the environment, and even on some economic issues, says Janicke. She too took aim at the wooden bird - and missed. "As a young girl, I was told by my parents: We are union and spd," she says. "But since we've lost steel and coal as our only industries, both big employers are disappearing. That means you're not born conservative or left wing...
...Company in January bought a 49% stake in Metro International's Boston operation for $16.5 million. Even Associated, in its push to peddle free papers, seems to be cannibalizing itself. Circulation of its own paid-for London title, the Evening Standard, fell 10.8% in the five months to March. Aiming to prop up circulation, Associated late last year launched Standard Lite, a free, slimmed-down, lunchtime version of the evening title. Sources close to the company say only one-third of Standard Lite's readers are willing to buy the bulkier, paid-for evening version. And Britain's Office...
...students will not be able to donate unused BoardPlus, which also had been the aim of a recent online petition coordinated by the Harvard Darfur Action Group...