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...tried to roll with it,” Sheldon said. “It was definitely a much longer day, but this was by no means the longest.” Now the defending Ivy champs can take some time off, take a breather, and after hitting the links, begin to hit the books. “We’re taking a couple weeks off to put in couple of extra hours into schoolwork,” Sheldon said. “It’s starting to pile up.” —Staff writer Walter...
...Friday, for example, officials at the Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing looked to the Nov. 15 international summit in Washington to begin reforming the global financial system with a call to pump up the IMF in managing the situation. "Leaders agreed that the IMF should play a critical role in assisting countries seriously affected by the crisis, upon their request," a concluding statement urged...
Koulmanda said she and her co-author, Terry B. Strom, a Medical School professor, hope to begin clinical trials by the end of the year...
...arrested nine of them at sea during a raid near the Gulf of Aden. But the roots of Somalia's piracy problem lie in the breakdown of state authority on land, which is why many questioned just how effective the French Naval action - or the NATO patrols due to begin in the coming days - will be in curbing the pirates. The nine nabbed by the French, after all, were stripped of their weapons and then handed over to the very Somali authorities who have failed to keep them under control in the first place...
...French are hoping that if the nine are tried and jailed by the Somali authorities, the piracy industry could begin to unravel. Right now, though, the pirates of Puntland don't seem to be feeling any need to panic...