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...ranking of the university’s most influential alumni. In last year’s list, the top five, in order, were former Vice President Al Gore ’69, President George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Allon said he intends to have a dinner in the fall honoring next year’s Harvard 100. Allon also said he plans to publish similar magazines and rankings for each Ivy League school. While no timeline has been set yet, Allon, an alumnus of Cornell and Columbia...
...First of all, the causes of the trade disputes then and now are very much alike. In both cases, Americans blamed other countries for problems they created themselves. In the late 1980s, Akio Morita, Sony's flamboyant co-founder, was one of the most outspoken about Japan's economic conflicts with America. He argued that all of the bickering about currency rates and corporate practices were somewhat irrelevant. The U.S. trade deficit, he wrote at the time, was "a result of commercial transactions based on preferences." Translation: Americans simply wanted to buy lots of things from Japan. The problem...
...However, Tadic's victory is not complete. Since he can't form a government on his own, he will need to find a coalition partner. Paradoxically, the most likely candidate is the Socialist Party of Serbia, whose founder was Slobodan Milosevic, the darkest figure in Serbia's recent history. The Socialists won 20 seats in the parliament, which, along with ethnic minorities who have 10 seats, should be enough for Tadic to build a comfortable majority...
...Although they consider themselves Muslims, mainstream Sunni and Shi'ite Islam do not recognize them as such, because of a series of Ahmadiyah beliefs deemed contradictory to the basic tenets of Islam - Ahmadiyahs believe, for example, that Muhammad was not Islam's last prophet, and that the sect's founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was the Mahdi or Messiah. The sect is banned in Pakistan, although it has coexisted peacefully with Indonesian Muslims since being established in the country in 1925. The group is estimated to have around 200,000 adherents in Indonesia today...
...said. “[Apple customers] are like our customers: modern and trendy.” The store has been the subject of some online controversy, as some blogs have claimed that the site would be the world’s largest Apple store. Gary D. Allen, the founder and webmaster of ifoAppleStore.com, disagrees. He explained that the claim does not seem plausible since the lot for the store is 6,834 square feet—meaning that the three stories of retail space could not reach the approximately 28,000 square feet of the Regent Street Apple Store...