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Slipping from 96% of the vote in the January 2004 Presidential election to 51.96% four years later, in Saturday's national vote, signifies a dramatic drop for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili...
...Georgia's GDP grew by 9.6%, the World Bank named Georgia the top reformer in the world. Its officials forecast growth of 14.5% in 2007. The Georgian government boosted revenues by tightening up the administration of the tax system. Private investment went up and there has been a crackdown on corruption. Per capita income is up from $700 a year in 2003 to the current figure of $1,500. The most astonishing achievement was Saakashvili's reform of the traditionally corrupt police forces. He disbanded the entire Ministry of the Interior - with recruitment based on the western testing system...
...Russia firmly controls Abkhazia and South Ossetia - the other two breakaway republics, with no intentions of giving them back, and keeps turning up the heat on a Western-leaning Georgia, since September 2006, by severing mail and transportation links between the two countries, closing Russian markets to Georgian wine and other key exports. Many Georgian businesses got closed in Russia, with Georgians rounded up and forcibly deported. The Russian Embassy was withdrawn from Tbilisi, coming back only in January 2007. Georgian ships were denied the right of entry to Russian ports. Natural gas prices, raised from...
...team that had previously had trouble finding the bottom of the net. The low light of the squad’s season came in a 17-0 start for Austin Peay against it on the first of this month. The nine scoreless minutes to open the game doomed the Georgian team to its third loss in a row. The Owls will not play between now and the Harvard matchup.Georgia Tech posted a 44-point second half to come from behind and defeat Mississippi State, thanks in part to senior forward Janie Mitchell’s 23-point game, her forth...
...Christopher M. Gordon, architecture is a top concern for alumni. “I can go on for hours about the engineering and the technical aspects, and all the questions are about architecture,” he said of alums who are concerned about a move away from the Georgian style that dominates the Cambridge campus. Behnisch said that his perceptions of the University’s buildings did not initially match up with others’ ideas. He said when he thought of Harvard, images of the modern concrete and glass of the Carpenter Center came to mind rather...