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...informal body that groups together not just the leading advanced industrial economies, who have their own club in the G-8, but also "emerging market" nations such as India and China, together with middle-income economies such as South Korea and Mexico. Together, the 19 nations (plus the European Union, which explains the 20 - though the World Bank and IMF are also members of the G-20, just to confuse things) account for about 90% of world GDP, 80% of world trade and two-thirds of the world's population...
...three regattas over the weekend, its most action in a single weekend to date in its young spring season. Both the co-ed and women’s squads responded well from the additional practice over Spring Break, as the co-ed squad placed first in the Boston Dinghy Club Cup at home on the Charles and the women’s team finished a respectable runner-up in the Duplin Trophy Women’s Team Race in Medford, Mass. Also, some individuals performed well in the Owen, Mosbacher, and Knapp Trophies in Kings Point...
...golf course. The 18 major championships. The electrifying finishes.” This certainly was the case on Thursday, as the Harvard men’s golf team was narrowly edged out by University of California at Riverside, 305-307, at the Nicklaus Tournament Course of the Club at PGA West in La Quinta, Calif. “I was the first one in, so I didn’t see how the other guys behind me were doing,” freshman Mark Pollak said. “Judging by the play throughout the match, I thought...
...most cities, finding the hottest jazz is a matter of knowing which club to go to. But it's not so simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly improvisational Cape Jazz) and more than its fair share of musical talent - ranging from greats like Abdullah Ibrahim and Robbie Jansen to young impresarios like Kyle Shepherd and Jonathan Rubain - serious performance venues can be frustratingly sparse...
...Four years ago Kevin Rudd got drunk and took himself into a strip club. Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm." -Australian Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Green party, defending Rudd after the revelation of his strip club visit (The Times of London, August...