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Harvard’s graduate students are disadvantaged by the low level of cooperation between the two graduate schools in several ways—direct conflicts in calendar, limits on cross-registration, few joint activities for the J.D.-M.B.A. program and insufficient integration of different types of course materials...
...from embarrassment. One of the Administration's top counterterrorism officials says the Saudis still appear to be protecting charities associated with the royal family and its friends. He says the bank records of a charity suspected of being an al-Qaeda front mysteriously disappeared. The Americans hope a new joint task force, created at the suggestion of Prince Abdullah and based in Riyadh, will make better cooperation on finances more automatic...
...Christian Croat father and his two daughters on Christmas Eve in what locals say was a hate crime. Saudi teachings, complains Mohammed Besic, a former Bosnian Interior Minister, "are poisoning our youth." More recently the Saudis have focused on nearby Kosovo. Half of the $1 million the Saudi Joint Relief Committee spent in the two months after the 1999 war there went to sponsor 388 religious "propagators" intent on converting Kosovars to Wahhabism...
That's not to say psychographics is an exact science. In fact, there are numerous companies racing to build and sell tools similar to LifeMatrix, among them Monitor MindBase, offered by the market-research firm Yankelovich, and BehaviorGraphics, a joint venture between Simmons Market Research Bureau and Nielsen Media Research. All use different assumptions and psychological profiles to sort consumers into categories variously referred to as segments, clusters, affinity groups or passion groups and identified by such titles as "shotguns and pickups," "struggling singles," "band leaders" and "succeeders." MindBase, for example, extrapolates from a combination of attitudes gleaned from opinion...
...went to war in 1991, both heads of state offered regrets for the actions of their citizens during the conflict. "I want to apologize for all the wrongdoings that any citizen of Serbia and Montenegro has committed against any citizen of Croatia," Serbian President Zvetozar Marovic said at a joint news conference. His counterpart from Zagreb, Stijpe Mesic, said he accepted "the symbolic apology" and offered his own to "all those to whom the citizens of Croatia have inflicted pain or caused damage." The statements follow three years of rapprochement between the erstwhile enemies. The Final Hurdle LIBYA...