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...Mexican political figure and you've nearly filled Mexico City's mammoth central plaza, you've done a good day's work. The mostly young crowd that gathered on the Zocalo to greet Subcomandante Marcos and his fellow Zapatista Army commanders on Sunday took up a good 85 percent of the plaza. Crowd estimates were wildly inconsistent, but the order of magnitude is tens of thousands of people...
...Mart's real problem in Europe is a lack of scale. In the U.S., where it can shift massive volumes of stock through its mammoth supercenters, the company wrings price concessions from suppliers and passes on the savings to customers. Wal-Mart's 3,118 stores in the U.S. average 38,109 sq m each; Asda's 241 outlets are barely one-third that size. Moreover, Asda is primarily devoted to food, not higher-margin general merchandise...
...first round of the draft is always the most awaited and intense, but never the most important. It's the fifth and sixth rounds that separate the men from the boys. Who will come away with the steal? Who will choose the oft-injured player with mammoth potential? Who will pick the sleeper? Who will select the bust...
...Foreign governments and private institutions, suspicious of the spendthrift habits, mammoth bank accounts and princely villas that have become trademarks of nouveau riche Russians abroad, are beginning to close their doors and their borders to some of the richest. And many powerful Russian tycoons must think twice before boarding an outbound flight lest they share the fate of Pavel Borodin, the erstwhile Kremlin property manager and multimillionaire who was arrested last month in New York on an extradition request from Switzerland alleging involvement in money laundering...
...friends in Princeton, N.J., have once again led the way in student aid, ensuring that no student has to fret about dragging a family into financial hardship by attending a costly undergraduate institution. As Harvard makes the news for amassing a mammoth endowment, Princeton makes the news for putting its endowment to good use. Harvard should be ashamed for its lackluster record on financial aid and should take steps to ease the burden of undergraduate tuition, room and board...