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...hard to get 100% of the credit. Many analysts point out that all of Hong Kong's telecom licenses expire in 2006, and the decision on whose gets renewed will surely be made in Beijing. That's why HKT chose Richard, the analysts say--because Li Ka-shing's clout in China will smooth the way. To others, however, it looks like Superboy is perfectly capable of flying...
...hard-line Cuban-American leadership also wants to preserve the political clout it enjoyed during the cold war. And it is increasingly isolated, even within Florida. In a poll cited by the St. Petersburg Times last week, 83% of Florida's Hispanics opposed sending Elian back to his father in Cuba, while 81% of its blacks and 65% of its non-Latino whites favored it. Regardless of who "wins" the battle over Elian, sociologist Max Castro laments, the exiles are "damaging their cause in most Americans' eyes." In short, Castro's archfoes may have trapped themselves in more ways than...
...even as they grow in clout, for-profit schools are still struggling to do what their name denotes--make money. That requires taking the same government funds that the average school district spends per pupil per year--the U.S. average is $6,500--and not only providing a superior education but also squeezing out a profit. That's a tough task in a field in which "the margins are more like McDonald's than Microsoft's," as Thomas Toch, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, puts...
...cancel the huge debts which developing nations accumulated over the past 30 years. Sachs has been a proponent of such a program since 1985, but Bono is certainly Jubilee's most famous spokesman. More than the latest chic cause for New York socialites, this group maintains fervid academic clout--especially after Sachs joined last year. "When Jubilee 2000 came to the fore they asked me if I could help," he said. "Bono and I spent a lot of time in the past year working on this...
...disproportionate clout that these anti-abortionist groups have over candidates is symptomatic of another important issue--campaign finance reform. But what is more essential for today's abortion debate than the banning of soft-money is the clarification of the issue by candidates and representatives...