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...anti-Syrian opposition is pressing for full withdrawal ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for May, and is using Syria's international isolation - and its failure to install a new regime of its own making in Beirut - to press the case. And their prospects have never been brighter, given the wave of international and domestic outrage that followed the Valentine's Day assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...
...striking resemblance to the team’s evolution this season, one in which Corriero bore most of the weight for most of the early games. But as the season progressed, Harvard won more games, Corriero has had more help, and the Crimson’s prospects are looking brighter, going 13-0-2 in 2005, winning twice over rival Dartmouth and garnering both ECAC and Ivy titles. Harvard has accomplished this feat only twice before, in 1999 and 2003. One season led to a national championship, the other led to a triple-overtime defeat in the final game...
...overtaken by men, who become doctors, engineers and computer technicians. Educators say they watch many bright girls suddenly recoil in the face of real, head-to-head competition with boys. In a math class at a Reykjavk school, Asgeir Gurdmundsson, 17, says that although girls were consistently brighter than boys at school, "they just seem to leave the technical jobs to us." Says Solrun Gensdottir, the director of education at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture: "We have to find a way to stop girls from dropping out of sciences...
Perez sifted through Kodak's intellectual property to come up with a new plan. The picture was brighter than he expected. "People think our challenge in becoming digital is that we don't understand the technology," says Perez. "They're absolutely, terribly wrong. We have technology coming out of our ears." What the company didn't have was focus. Perez provided one, identifying three areas of concentration: consumer imaging, health imaging and commercial printing. To eliminate distractions, he sold Kodak's Remote Sensing Systems satellite business to ITT Industries for $725 million and began pulling Kodak out of a range...
...shape,” citing folk artist Emory Blagdon’s installation “The Healing Machine,” as a significant influence. People are represented through triangles of multicultural construction paper (a material stemming from multicultural crayons used to render different skin tones), while the brighter top row alludes to childhood learning experiences...