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...with trade of $76.3 billion last year, the E.U. is Russia's top partner. But this beauty is largely skin deep. The country's economy depends almost entirely on exporting raw materials, and its recent success owes more to higher oil prices than to market reform - which helps explain why its growth is slowing. Other businesses are propped up by price controls that amount to a $5 billion subsidy. And the whole system, according to a recent report, is lubricated by $33.5 billion a year in bribes. Russia is, after all, a developing economy, and the European Bank for Reconstruction...
...Algerian extraction who is director of programming at the local station Radio Beaucaire, where she also hosts her own show. She's still looking for someone to fess up. "As a body, nearly half the voters in Beaucaire voted for Le Pen, but no one will admit or explain it," she muses. Like Houari, Hamoudi says rising crime and ambient hostility are concerns, but their dramatization by French politicians and the media has played right into Le Pen's hands. "I'm ashamed of the Beaucairois who vote Le Pen, which isn't merited by what's happening here today...
...else can you explain, Castro confidants ask, why he didn't explode when Washington dumped hundreds of al-Qaeda prisoners at the U.S. naval base on Cuba's Guantanamo Bay this year? And why didn't he burn like a lighted Cohiba last week when visiting ex-President Jimmy Carter lectured about human rights on live Cuban TV and urged Castro to respect a referendum bid by dissidents seeking more freedoms? Because he knew Carter would make an equally strong call for the U.S. to lift the embargo...
...federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 5 to 4 in favor of the school's race-conscious admissions policy. Lawyers for Barbara Grutter, a white woman whose Michigan application was rejected, are already working on her appeal. "It's time for the Supreme Court to weigh in and explain better what the law is in this area," says Terence Pell, CEO of the Center for Individual Rights, which is funding Grutter's legal battle...
Lewis met privately with CASV members after the Faculty meeting to explain the purpose of the committee, which will be chaired by Dr. Jennifer Leaning ’68, a professor of international health at the School of Public Health (HSPH...