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...calls for peace talks. Last week, the Chechen resistance quickly announced a new president, Abdul Khalim Saydulayev, the head of the Shariat, or Islamic court. In his mid-30s, Saydulayev is virtually unknown. Moscow and pro-Russian Chechens dismiss him as a Basayev puppet. Some Kremlin officials now predict the slow death of the guerrilla movement. A few veterans in the hills may well decide to make their peace with the authorities. But with Maskhadov gone, Basayev could become even more influential. And the war is increasingly being waged not by fighters in forests, but by jamaat - small mobile groups...
Poor academic performance spreads far beyond UConn's hoops program. Over the next few weeks, millions of fans will be wagering in office pools, trying to predict who will advance in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball tournament, a rite known as March Madness. Do you like Kentucky, with its 8% graduation rate, for the Sweet 16? Is Texas, at 27% like the Huskies, a match for them on the court too? Low achievement is plaguing not just revenue-generating sports like men's basketball and football. Softball and golf teams have also lagged. Add classroom woes...
This arrangement was nearly replicated in the Pairwise Rankings—which aim to predict the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee—except for a swap of the Big Green and Badgers...
Carter says that he cannot predict whether or not opposition to the bill will materialize in the legislature, but he says that any that arises will tout the value of protecting victim privacy...
...HAVE A TENDENCY TO MAKE TOO MUCH of test-score differences between the sexes (which are actually very small compared with the differences between, say, poor and affluent students). And regardless of what happens in school, personality and discipline can better predict success when it comes to highly competitive jobs...