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...growth forecast for the current fiscal year to a range of 6-6.5%, citing a mediocre monsoon season and high oil prices. Last year, the economy grew 8.2%. Southeast Asia, too, will see a decline, from 5.8% growth this year to 4.4% in 2005, according to Merrill Lynch. In Indonesia, the region's most populous country, hopes are running high that new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will push through tough reforms and woo back the investment needed to spur the sagging economy. But the biggest worry is the Philippines, where ballooning debt and endemic budget deficits are sparking fears that...
...Short is too good a writer to simply dismiss Pol Pot as an evil aberration. But his alternative argument?that brutality is somehow hardwired into Cambodian society?is not scholarly enough to be convincing. He makes his case largely by an unblinking focus on horror: children decapitated, lynch mobs eating their victims' fried livers, and so on. This attempt to place Pol Pot's wickedness in a wider psychohistorical context feels misguided rather than malicious, although Cambodian readers might feel differently...
Senior John Lynch then delivered the final blow, netting the winning goal and finally silencing the crowd that had been harassing the Harvard players all game. More importantly, Lynch’s goal secured a place for the Crimson in the championship game against St. Francis...
...winning goal from Lynch, his second on the day, gave Harvard the big win it had been hunting for through four seven-minute quarters and two three-minute overtimes. Though Brown was able to tally goals first in the first two frames of overtime, Harvard refused to give in. Kuzcynski scored to push the game into double overtime, while a pass from Gerrity enabled Offsay to put the ball into the net and send the game to sudden death...
Defense lawyers argued that Pring-Wilson acted in self-defense after being attacked by Colono, while the prosecution, led by Assistant District Attorney Adrienne Lynch, claimed that Pring-Wilson was the aggressor in the fight and deserved a first-degree murder conviction...