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...with an eye to bolstering Moscow's claims that Artur Chilingarov, a member of Russia's parliament, enlisted fellow parliamentarian Vladimir Gruzdev and the commander of the Mir 1 submersible, Anatoli Sagalevich, for last month's aquatic assault on the North Pole. With the funding (and presence aboard) of a Swedish millionaire and an Australian adventure-tour operator, the expedition trailed an icebreaker to the pole, where Sagalevich piloted one of two submersibles to a depth of 13,100 ft. (4,301 m), planted the Russian flag and then skillfully resurfaced through the shifting holes in the ice. Chilingarov said...
...efforts to undergird its case for extended sovereignty in the Arctic. (In 2002 a U.N. commission shelved Russia's claim to more of the Arctic for lack of detailed technical evidence.) Nor, despite this summer's bravado, is it clear that Russia has real plans to follow up the Mir expedition. Robert Nigmatulin, director of the Institute of Ocean Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, says establishing a claim to the continental shelf before 2009 - as Russia must do under the terms of the unclos - would require drilling deep-water seabed samples, technology that he says Russia does...
...Class Committee also presented the Ames awards for public service to Rabia G. Mir ’07 of Pforzheimer House and Rajan A. Sonik ’07 of Adams House...
...death was a symptom of corruption at the heart of the game. To be sure, hundreds of millions of dollars are reportedly wagered on cricket matches in South Asia, creating a huge incentive for gambling syndicates to find ways of manipulating outcomes. Although Pakistan's team spokesman Pervez Mir denounced the match-fixing allegations as a distraction from the murder investigation, it's a line of inquiry the Jamaican police are certainly taking seriously, as demonstrated by the fact that the murder investigation is working with the Anti-Corruption and Security Unit of the International Cricket Council...
...work. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz alleged to reporters earlier this week that one of South Asia's bookmaking mafia rings is probably behind Woolmer's murder. Sarfraz claims bookies were manipulating results, and that five members of the Pakistani squad were involved. The team's spokesman, Pervez Mir, angrily dismissed Sarfraz's allegations, telling a Pakistani paper, "There is no match-fixing going on within this team, there is no indication of that...