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...almost 40 years, the aircraft carrier Clemenceau plied the world's seas as the flag bearer of the French navy, deploying off troubled coasts from Djibouti in 1974 to Yugoslavia in 1993. Last week the decommissioned 26,000-ton giant - stripped of guns and under an assumed name - was stalled on what the French had hoped would be its last journey, bound for the world's biggest shipbreaking yards on the beaches of Alang in western India. The ship, which is riddled with potentially toxic asbestos and has already been rejected by Greece and Turkey, made no headway for several...
...Average income of readers of Vogue, the fashion standard-bearer...
...Mass.) met with two groups of Harvard students on Monday afternoon after a personal invitation was extended to him by Maxine Isaacs, an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Kerry, the Commonwealth’s junior senator, served as the Democratic standard-bearer in 2004 and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1985. He is widely believed to be harboring presidential aspirations for 2008. Kerry first met with students yesterday at the Institute of Politics, where he had a short lunch with a group of twelve first-years from Isaacs?...
...back President Bush on most issues, but they are no more impressed with the nomination of Bernanke than they are with that of Harriet Miers. Bernanke, they warn, doesn't share some of their basic positions on issues such as taxation. By contrast, curiously enough, Paul Krugman - standard bearer of the Left in national economic debates and often a fierce critic of Greenspan - appears to welcome the nomination of his former Princeton colleague, although he fears that Bernanke's tenure at the White House may have compromised his independence...
...best chance against Daigneau came just moments into the first period, via 2-on-1, but he and the Crimson defense successfully warded off the effort and neutralized the Redmen offense throughout the next period and a half. Tobe, however, was less fortunate, though he was not the exclusive bearer of blame for the McGill comeback. Sloppiness on his part did account for the Redmen’s second tally—Tobe gloved Lucas Madill’s blueline shot but failed to control it, allowing Maddill to bang home the rebound—but Harvard?...