Word: canada
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From a demographic perspective, 48.4 percent of this year's early admits were female, up from last year's rate of 47.3 percent. Geographic diversity was similar to last year, with a slightly higher number of admits from New England and mid-Atlantic regions and slightly lower admits from Canada and abroad...
Apparently, Shewchuk used up all of her dramatic goals playing for Canada last week, as she scored the game-tying goal against the US that forced an overtime shootout which the Canadians...
...freshmen there is a huge adjustment to the college game, but it's especially hard for Onnie," Sullivan said. "Coming from Canada, he hasn't ever played really serious basketball before, but he played good defense tonight and made Savane work for every basket...
...extent Castro allows, they are trying out capitalism, creating new private businesses, from boarding houses to pizza-delivery services, primed by the annual $800 million that family members in the U.S. send them. Many even draw dollars from Havana ATM machines, via accounts set up by U.S. relatives in Canada and Europe. But for Cubans, entrepreneurship is fraught with migraines, from exorbitant government licenses and taxes to graft. And for those who have no access to dollars, despair--and resentment--is rising. At the same time, Cubans are worried that turning capitalist too quickly could invite the kind of abuses...
...sanctions since mid-1998 against UNITA's diamond dealing have had little effect. Canada's U.N. ambassador, Robert Fowler, head of the Angolan sanctions committee, now has two panels of experts investigating UNITA's sanctions-busting operations and searching for a way to plug the embargo's holes. Fowler plans to put expert monitors in key trading centers to identify gems that could emanate from UNITA-held areas. He will also put U.N. customs officials at points in Africa where UNITA might move diamonds, money or weapons. At the same time, human-rights and environmental lobbyists have been pushing...