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Just half an hour into 2007, the mood among Andrei Sannikov's guests is somber. They crowd around the television in his apartment in the Belarusan capital, Minsk, to watch a news bulletin that interrupts the usual festive programming. "We have signed a new natural gas supply contract on unfavorable terms," announces Belarusan Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. Sannikov, a former member of the government and now an opposition activist in the country memorably described by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as "the last true dictatorship" in Europe, interprets the statement for his guests. "Russia has given itself...
...always been a Notre Dame football fan largely because the folks in South Bend at least seem to eschew that culture - to believe still in the student athlete ethos. Sure, the Fighting Irish community is guilty of its own bloated football obsessions, including the program's gilded television contract with NBC and the new 10-year contract for coach Charlie Weis that reportedly approaches or exceeds the $3 million-a-year mark itself, threatening to drag Notre Dame into the pigskin salary...
Saheed has been issued a contract that will keep him as principal of CRLS through July...
...guards will now select a bargaining committee, probably by the beginning of February. The bargaining committee with then sit down with AlliedBarton to discuss a “fair contract,” Jacobs said...
...introduce more competition, diversity and dynamism to the nation's schools, the commission proposes that schools be run by independent contractors - in some cases groups of teachers - who agree to meet requirements set and measured by the district or else lose the contract. Parents would choose the school their child attends...