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Maine interim head coach Tim Whitehead platooned seniors Mike Morrison and Matt Yeats throughout the year, though Morrison saw the bulk of the action...
...Palestinian attacks of the past two months, the bulk of which have been focused in the West Bank and Gaza and carried out by Fatah militants, have created a major domestic political crisis for Sharon. The Israeli leader is under mounting pressure from his right flank to take more decisive military action against the Palestinian Authority. Whether through escalation or a truce, Sharon needs desperately to calm the situation. So does the Bush administration, which has belatedly discovered the extent to which Israeli-Palestinian violence prevents Arab allies from supporting a war to unseat Saddam Hussein. Arafat will have seen...
...stock prices of Viacom, Halliburton and 3M, which have also taken recent hits. What is more disturbing, however, is that evidence suggests the number of recent claimants who are actually ill is on the decline; in other words, the number of healthy claimants is climbing. "The bulk of these people have no impairment," says Steven Kazan, a lawyer who represents only patients sick with asbestos-related diseases. In 1999, 12% of the Manville Trust's 31,700 claimants were sick with asbestos-related ills. Last year the number of claimants soared to 91,000, only 6% of them sick...
...Seoul has also unleashed long pent-up consumer demand by easing limits on credit-card use, among other measures. Koreans were once avid savers, encouraged by government policies designed to funnel domestic capital to industry to bulk up manufacturing capacity. Today, citizens are shopping more and saving less?South Korea's savings rate measured against GDP has declined by 10 percentage points since 1987. In the rest of Asia, by contrast, domestic savings rates have remained at Scroogian levels...
...often claim that Harvard’s greatest asset is its people but then too easily forget a bulk of the individuals who make up this community. Workers at Harvard are every bit as valuable as students, faculty or administrators. Treating them with benign neglect is simply not acceptable. We should all learn the names of and get to know the workers whom we see on a daily basis. As we surely must appreciate what they do for us, we ought to let them know that we care. And we should do this not for a couple of extra fries...