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...Harvard is confident it can carry this success through the offseason and into the spring, when the team will be favored to pick up a second consecutive Ivy championship. “It’s definitely great to get these results, but this is by no means our aim,” junior Claire Sheldon said. “We go into every tournament [wanting] to play our best. This was a more difficult golf course, so these scores are a little high, but it’s definitely a big confidence builder for next year...
...Alternative Investment Market (AIM) is a good example of how London got so big in the first place and how it's starting to pay the price. Launched in the mid-'90s as part of the London Stock Exchange, this market for small companies deliberately set out to cut to an absolute minimum the paperwork for listing firms. There's no need, say, for bulky official prospectuses before a stock is listed on AIM, and the market is overseen not by official regulators but by brokerage firms called nomads, which are responsible for the new issues. For years, AIM...
...Class,” began the “Diálogo” discussions last year. While the center also sponsors various travel abroad programs, Howell said organizers hope “to continue the Latin experience once people returned to the U.S.” The talks aim to provide an opportunity for students to discuss Latin American issues in an informal setting...
...signing a raft of new agreements with a nation he had hailed in Islamabad four days earlier as "the future of the world." China and Pakistan tied up at least 11 deals on trade and economic cooperation, infrastructure projects, agriculture, mining rights and telecommunications; they now aim to double bilateral trade, which currently stands at around $7 billion...
...Diet's ruling parties aim to pass the legislation this month. Nakagawa, the Finance Minister, says the law could include a new measure that would allow credit unions and credit associations with weak capital bases to apply for public funds...