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...captured only about €1.2 billion, half last year's market share, according to sourcing advisors TPI. If that number keeps shrinking, there might be a few more IBM employees feeling the Big Blues. - By Michael Brunton Waiting For A Reaction The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) won't begin producing energy before 2050, but it's already generating hot air. Last week, Japan considered filing a formal protest after French officials - including President Jacques Chirac - indicated that the French site at Cadarache, 65 km north of Marseilles, had all but bagged the €10 billion deal to host ITER...
...illegal oil contracts from Saddam Hussein in violation of the U.N. program designed to keep the Iraqi people from starving while depriving their dictator of cash. Although the names of scores of rumored recipients have been circulating for more than a year, this week the subcommittee is expected to begin releasing voluminous details of oil contracts with Charles Pasqua, a former French Interior Minister and onetime close associate of French President Jacques Chirac's who has categorically denied any involvement. Among others to be named are a member of British Parliament, a right-wing politician in Russia and a former...
...more dynamic, flexible, and influential UC. Presidential campaigns must engage students better through more innovative tactics than postering and screaming outside of the Science Center. A bigger budget will give campaigns the resources to do so. And with the ability to reserve future funding, the UC can begin planning big events like concerts years, instead of months, in advance...
Yesterday, the committee announced the 64-team field for the 2005 NCAA championship, naming Harvard one of 16 regional venues that will host the first two rounds of play. The No. 19 Crimson (17-6, 7-0 Ivy), which received the same honor the past two seasons, will begin its quest for the national title against Maryland (11-11) at the Beren Tennis Center...
...Optimists hope that the creation of the new government may begin to reverse the insurgency's momentum, but it may be some time before the new political order attracts the support of the bulk of the Sunnis. The insurgents, by repeatedly and consistently demonstrating their considerable capability for violent disruption, hope to convince the Sunnis that they needn't settle for the minority stake in power being offered by Jaafari. And the very fact that the new government feels compelled to try and accommodate them despite their absence at the polls may reinforce that perception...