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...smaller developing countries that depend heavily upon textile manufacturing for jobs, the end of quotas could be a dire economic blow. In 2002, for example, quotas on some items, including gloves and negligees, were lifted by the U.S. By 2003, Chinese exports of those goods leaped nearly 200% from their 2001 levels, while Sri Lanka's exports dropped more than 50% and Bangladesh's fell 46%. If history repeats itself, millions of people could be thrown out of work in some of the world's poorest and most politically volatile countries?and in the richest as well...
...Dean Gross simply does not want Harvard to suffer a similar blow. Anyone who saw the footage of Kenmore Square after the fantastic Game 7 victory can attest that it was quite a violent celebration,” said Currier House Committee (HoCo) Chair Robert M. Koenig...
...fields and on hillsides. No, it's not a re-enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes. Held every year on Nov. 5, Bonfire Night nominally commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - an attempt by English Catholics to blow up the upper house of Parliament and launch an uprising against King James I's Protestant rule. These days, however, it's simply an excuse (not just in Lewes, but also in less flamboyant displays throughout the country) for a boisterous get-together by pyromaniacs of every stripe. From midafternoon...
...north London mosque, has been in detention since his arrest in May on a U.S. extradition warrant. The British indictment will now take precedence. On the Alert SPAIN Antiterror police asked Switzerland to extradite Algerian Mohamed Achraf, alleged ringleader of a group of Islamic extremists suspected of plotting to blow up Madrid's National Court. Spanish examining magistrate Baltasar Garzón questioned eight suspected members of the gang arrested in nationwide swoops, and a further 10 Islamic extremists already serving jail sentences for offenses unrelated to terrorism. Officials said the arrests were not connected to the March 11 Madrid...
...villagers, wielding torches, as it were (not really). The planned expansion of grad school and faculty housing in the Riverside neighborhood apparently constitutes an infringement on our neighbors’ peaceable, hunter-gatherer way of life. All this from the cohort who two years ago delivered a fatal preemptive blow to hopes of a first-rate contemporary art museum on the Charles...