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...Under a new arena lease with the state, the team must average 14,753 in paid attendance for regular season games from Dec. 1, 2007, through the end of the 2009 season. If the Hornets miss that threshold, the team has an option to leave New Orleans for a more attractive market - there are plenty, including St. Louis and Seattle, which will likely lose the Sonics - though it will cost Shinn a $100 million penalty...
...salvage some legitimacy by entering an ill-fated partnership with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. (Ahsan is a member of her Pakistan People's Party [PPP], but she didn't support the lawyers' movement.) Bhutto was already backing away from a power-sharing deal when she was assassinated on Dec. 27. Now the PPP and other opposition groups are expected to win big in the election, and Musharraf, even though he is not running, looks highly vulnerable...
...Hetrick popped the question under the newly-installed spotlights of Week’s Memorial Bridge on Dec. 1, 2007 after a romantic dinner...
BusinessWeek has retracted language the magazine used to characterize comments University President Drew G. Faust made about the difficulty that public universities face in pursuing scientific research. In the Dec. 10 issue of the magazine, reporter Anthony Bianco wrote that Faust believed “it would be wise” for what he termed “lesser universities” to leave larger science endeavors to wealthier private schools. The story provoked a denunciation from the provosts of 11 large public universities who sent a letter to BusinessWeek criticizing Faust for purportedly alleging that “lesser...
...notion that a student newspaper should be allowed to act as functionally independent organ of the student body has been assaulted. The withholding of funds for The Montclarion is chillingly reminiscent of attempts by the University of Southern California administration to regulate the Daily Trojan through personnel changes in Dec. 2006. Both college administrations and student governments should work to ensure that there is a steady stream of funding for their student newspapers. The Montclarion receives roughly one-third of its funding from the student government, but like most collegiate papers it has historically been allowed to challenge the misuse...