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...UCRC’s recommendation to raise to two-thirds the number of votes required for consideration of certain amendments addresses this balance. Our only concern is that the two-thirds threshold (up from one-third) is too high; the new requirement will eliminate the specter of one committee (totaling roughly one-third of the UC) consistently bogging down debate, but we worry that it could demand too many others to support often-needed examinations of controversial proposals. While we defer to those more familiar with the dynamics of UC debates to set the two-thirds limit...
...will prevail in Russia? Christopher Weafer, chief strategist at Alfa Bank in Moscow, talks about Russia as a "triple- layer" economy: on the top is the nation's fiscal strength, on the bottom the roiling consumer sector (mobile-phone subscriptions notched up another record in March, and Ford sold one-third more cars in the first quarter of this year than it did a year ago). But Weafer cautions about the middle layer: energy and other areas that could be construed by the Kremlin as being of strategic value. There, investment risk is greatest due to the lack of legal...
...black men at Harvard were in an uncomfortable situation. With their class, black enrollment had nearly doubled—from around 80 students in 1996 to 150 the next year. Black males in particular were more strongly represented than ever. Whereas the class before them had been only one-third male, their class was evenly split between the genders. But without an established community of black males, the G-men and their newly populous peer group could turn to no one but each other...
...described themselves as the main financial decision makers in their households. Sixty-three percent of the respondents were men; 37% were women. Among the findings: 51% of the women polled said they think about money more often than sex, in contrast to only 27% of the men. One sobering statistic: nearly one-third of all women said they enjoy money more than sex; a mere 26% favored sex. Men had decidedly different priorities: 47% voted for sex, while only 16% of them opted for money...
...great time to be a consumer in Australia: incomes are rising, interest rates are low, and stores are flooded with a vast array of inexpensive products - from $A12 cordless drills to $A90 DVD players - many of them imported from China. China makes half the world's cameras and one-third of all TVs. In 2004, imports from China rose by almost 26% to $A17.9 billion, almost all of it manufactured goods (such as clothing, computers, toys and sporting goods, telecommunications equipment and furniture). Last year, Australia exported to China a mountain of wool and cotton. Ships carrying a tiny fraction...