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...think anybody in that [locker] room thinks that we’re not a team that can challenge for the league title and be an NCAA [Tournament]-type team.”NET GAINIt might have been easy to think that Kyle Richter became the Harvard goaltender by default. After all, the only truly viable alternative, Justin Tobe ’07, graduated after winning the starting job over Richter late last season.Richter, however, isn’t playing like a last resort. To anyone who might have thought so, the blanking of Rensselaer and Union proved otherwise...
Beamed from Dubai, MTV Arabia targets 15-to-35-year-olds from Bahrain to Cairo. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the channel's most important market for advertising but also the most conservative, so K.S.A. 2.0, as the youngest MTV executives call it, is the default setting for how far is too far. The launch team, a mix of Saudis, Palestinians, Emiratis, Iraqis and Lebanese, decided on a 60-40 split between music videos and reality programming...
...Worldwide, the total value of shares from 25 countries tracked on the MSCI Emerging Market Index is now at its highest level since the mid-1990s, a time considered by many to have been a bubble (one that was popped by the 1997 Asian crisis and Russia's credit default). Yet investors are still piling in - inflows into emerging-market funds have been about $24 billion so far this year, exceeding $22.4 billion for all of last year...
...perhaps just as significantly, Parodi continues, French public opinion that has long tended to back virtually any labor movement by default - often to the amazement of foreign observers - now appears to agree with Sarkozy's view that the time has come for change. "Strikes and opposition to reform has been something of a rite in French society, and there's a feeling today that this reoccurring ritual is now both outdated and counter-productive," Parodi explains. "There's a very strong feeling this time around that enough is enough - it's time to face reality and move ahead...
...there are boarding-school staples like family-style meals at round tables, school-wide meetings, blue blazers and khaki pants. There's also the rather revolutionary belief that the classroom should be an intimate place that fosters discussion and critical thinking rather than rote memorization, which is the default teaching method in much of the region. But more important is the school's effort to create an environment where learning takes place outside the classroom - through athletics, community service, honor codes and an expectation that students become leaders in everyday life. The school also plans to bring a new diversity...