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...RESIGNED. ANDREW LINDBERG, 52, chief executive of Australian wheat exporter AWB; amid allegations of corruption involving the United Nations oil-for-food program governing trade with Saddam Hussein's Iraq; in Melbourne. U.N. officials claim that from 1996 to 2003, when AWB-formerly the state-controlled Australian Wheat Board-was the largest supplier of humanitarian goods to Iraq, the firm gave up to $222 million in kickbacks to Iraqi ministers in exchange for lucrative contracts. AWB has denied any wrongdoing...
There is no doubt that Penn is still the prohibitive favorite to claim the Ivy title, and that the sequence of events which would leave the Quakers up three with just half the season left to play is arguably the most likely outcome for this weekend...
...School Admission Council. Though other schools have reported consistent declines in the number of applicants over the years, Harvard Law School (HLS) has seen its pool stabilize after falling 3.5 percent last year. Though applications fell to 7,127 from 7,386 in the 2004-2005 cycle, officials claim that there has been no change this time around. “Applications are still coming in,” HLS Director of Communications Michael A. Armini wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday. “We’re not seeing anything significantly different from last year...
...Power (aka Chan Marshall) has spent her career becoming one of the leaders of the female tortured singer-songwriter genre, laying claim to the crown held previously by Aimee Mann and Liz Phair. If Marshall was the queen, “The Greatest” will be remembered as her abdication—a movement into happier, if less fruitful, territory. The genre has traditionally espoused an ethic of independence, but for this dishonestly named album, she sought out help, moving to Memphis to record with a backing band filled with some of country music’s old-hands...
...final, fallacious argument against the wall comes from within the U.S. Immigrant advocate groups complain that the wall will somehow make it more difficult for Mexican immigrants to find representation in the U.S. and will infringe upon their rights to organize and protest. This claim is absolutely absurd. The only people who will be affected by this wall are illegal immigrants, not the ones who have legally come to this country. Illegal immigrants are not part of the U.S., do not participate in the country’s social contract, and are therefore not entitled to the same rights...