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...that momentum. As the organization's 150th member, Vietnam stands to get greater access to overseas markets such as the U.S. and Europe for its agricultural and manufactured exports; by hewing more closely to free-trade policies the WTO requires of its members, it may also be able to attract additional foreign investment in everything from factories to petrochemical plants, fueling job growth. (In the first 10 months of this year, foreign direct investment in Vietnam was estimated at $6.5 billion, surpassing the $6.1 billion total for all of last year.) "The WTO is sort of the stamp of approval...
...chance to serve their communities that made them stay, attendees said. Harvard’s Center for Public Interest Careers (CPIC), an organization geared towards offering students internships and fellowships in the field of public service, sponsored the buffet-style dinner yesterday evening in an effort to attract applicants. “We wanted to celebrate a summer of service for the CPIC interns and also spread the word about CPIC,” said Travis A. Lovett, the group’s assistant coordinator. About 40 students mingled in a dimly lit room at John Harvard?...
...Nintendo dominates Japan, Sony fares well in Europe and Microsoft racks up its strongest sales in North America. That means fewer must-have titles for one platform, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves. Moreover, games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced hardware-it's their novelty, storytelling and fun factor that count...
...obviously very pleased to have such a high yield,” William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, dean of admissions and financial aid, said. Fitzsimmons credited the Undergraduate Minority Recruiting Program and Harvard’s Financial Aide Initiative, with helping Harvard attract talented black students, who are highly sought after by top universities. “To produce future leaders you need to do what we have been doing and what we will continue to do, which is reach out aggressively to students of all backgrounds,” Fitzsimmons said. This year, the Harvard Admissions Office...
...terms. While Jack and Meg White are lauded for pushing musical their boundaries, the Black Keys have shorn their style to its very skeleton, its bones revealing a marriage of raw blues and Southern rock. Young men in t-shirts playing no-shtick rock in 2006, the Black Keys attract a wide variety of fans, from young indie-rock fans to 50-year-olds eager to see classic rockers that aren’t sagging pitifully in a way that strikes too close to home. The crowd at the Avalon came as no surprise, then, and tossle-headed twenty-somethings...