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...Isaac was put up for tenure as a professor in Afro-American studies along with two other professors but—unlike them—he was not up for a joint appointment. The other two professors were eventually given tenure while Isaac was denied a position. According to Isaac, this reflected a desire on the part of University administrators to shift the focus of the department away from African studies...
...India's biggest companies have begun opening the first of what they say will be thousands of flashy new supermarkets across the country in the next few years. At the same time, foreign retail chains such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour are pressing to enter the market through joint ventures and by lobbying the government to change protectionist laws so they can set up wholly owned chains. The opportunities are immense. The McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank, estimates India's retail market will be worth $1.52 trillion by 2025, up from $370 billion in 2005. Though the relative importance...
...early 1990s, only 1,000 ships entered the port each year; now more than 3,600 do so. Hermanis Cernovs, a naturalized Latvian born in Russia, has witnessed the transformation at first hand. When the Iron Curtain fell, he was commander of a Soviet nuclear submarine. Today, he organizes joint sea-rescue exercises with France, Sweden and the U.S. as the head of the Latvian coast guard. "The changes of the past decade were very, very fast," he says in English, the region's new lingua franca. "They were completely unexpected...
...ahead in April for the second phase of the peace plan: a "heavy support package," with 3,000 U.N. troops, police and civilian personnel along with six attack helicopters and other equipment. Last weekend, however, al-Bashir reiterated his opposition to the deployment of a 22,000-strong joint U.N.-AU force, saying he would only allow a larger African force with technical and logistical support from...
...TIME's Joe Klein also reports that Vice President Cheney is actively promoting military action against Iran, despite such a course of action being unanimously opposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff at a meeting with President Bush last December...