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...hosts in the Holy City will be the Israelis, Israel is unhappy that he'll meet with the Palestinian Authority-appointed Grand Mufti on the Temple Mount, a site on which the third-holiest site in Islam - the Al Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock - is built atop the ruins of Judaism's holiest temple. "The Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to make the trip appear to confirm its claim on East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, while the Israelis will do everything to prevent that and to stake their own claims," says Beyer...
...Queens College Knights were Harvard's hardest competition up until this point in the season. The Knights came into Saturday's match atop the Hay division of the EIVA...
...Ireland. Of all the Irish immigrants currently stateside, about half of them live in the Boston Metropolitan Area. If this were 1776, one might imagine people yelling, "The Irish are coming--the Irish are coming!" as on the other side of town, opposite the seaside wharves, Boston Brahmins high atop their venerable hill guffaw, "Oh, too many of them buggers are running around our city...
...strategy focuses on advance sales and tax breaks. Customs duties make up 60% of the price of imported BMWs in Russia, but Kaliningrad, a free-trade zone, grants importers immunity from imposts. Atop that, BMW's Russian partner is assembling the cars cheaply--the top pay for its workers is only about $200 a month. The Kaliningrad BMWs, deluxe Series 5 models, will sell at upwards of $40,000, a price only Russia's richest can afford. The joint venture already has on its books a big order, however--from the Kremlin. The administration of new acting President Vladimir Putin...
This weekend, Harvard came out with a chance to run the table on its last three games against Columbia, Cornell and first-place Dartmouth to force a tie atop the Ivy League with Dartmouth and Penn, assuming both teams would win their other remaining games...