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David Aulicino, a Yale senior, said that there were 20 students in the pep squad and “many other friends everywhere helping us to pull it off.” Perhaps most surprisingly, Michael Kai, also a Yale senior, said that he had Harvard support, and that “there was a guy in the band who helped me out getting into the stands.” But even more shocking than the revelation of traitors in our midst is the amount of resources that were spent to make the prank the “epic?...
...first issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, dated Oct. 16, 1946-14 months after the Japanese surrendered Hong Kong-ran a report saying the colony's Kai Tak airport would have to be replaced by a facility on a bigger, safer site. Kai Tak, in fact, grew and prospered and lasted another 51 years. The Review lasted even longer, reporting on business and political issues from every country in the region. But last week owner Dow Jones & Co. announced that following six unprofitable years, the Review would be turned into a monthly periodical of opinion pieces...
...Serbia, has been ruled by a United Nations administration backed by an 18,000-strong NATO peacekeeping force, with assistance from an the Kosovo Assembly. But with conflicts brewing around the world, the U.N. and NATO are now looking to get out, and fast. In a recent U.N. report, Kai Eide, a veteran Norwegian diplomat, said the U.N. needed urgently to refocus its efforts on transferring authority to local leaders and ending its present mission: "We can no longer defer the most difficult issues to an indefinite future." There is no more difficult issue than Kosovo's independence...
...more American--approach. Its faculties are modeled after U.S. universities in which postdoctorate researchers have better access to funding, doing away with the top-down approach. The Dresden institute is also aggressively trying to attract researchers from outside Germany. "We are adapting the U.S. system to Europe," says Kai Simons, director of the institute. "The big advantage the U.S. has is that it gives resources to young minds at an early phase...
...without warning, hundreds of Chinese missiles strike Taiwan. Day two: China's jet fighters tear across the Taiwan Strait and reduce the island's air force to just 30 planes. Day five: paratroopers land near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Plaza, storming the offices of President Chen Shui-bian. In 130 hours, China's hostile takeover of Taiwan is complete?at least in cyberspace...