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...Long-time head coach Fred Dunphy is not back, however, after leaving Penn, but not Philadelphia, in the spring, to replace Hall-of-Famer John Chaney at fellow Big 5 institution Temple. So Glen Miller, formerly of Brown, takes over the reins of the Ivy League’s premier program...
...spirit may prove critical for the country. It is at the hub of Mexico's most ambitious push to forge government, business and university partnerships that can generate new companies, based not on natural resources but on cutting-edge technologies. The city's "Monterrey Tech"--perhaps Latin America's premier business and engineering school--is a central link in this effort, which is supported by $1 billion of annual federal spending on scientific and technological research and focused on building up Ciudad del Conocimiento (Knowledge City), mandated to germinate new business clusters in biotechnology and information technologies. Monterrey has more...
...knows that it is no layup and, as a sports market, may be among the least global. First, he is up against wicket competition, firmly planted in the country's psyche. "Cricket is our religion," says Harish Sharma, secretary-general of India's national basketball federation, of India's premier pastime. "Basketball is just another sport." In India, even soccer pales by comparison with cricket...
...also thank Bush for bringing him back to center stage at a time of genuine national crisis. Baker has held three Cabinet posts, overseen a fourth agency and run five presidential campaigns. Untying the Gordian knot that is Iraq would cement his reputation as one of the nation's premier wise men of the past 30 years...
...DIED. Bulent Ecevit, 81, former Prime Minister of Turkey; in Ankara. First appointed Premier in 1974, Ecevit held the position four more times over the next 30 years. A left-leaning nationalist, Ecevit's reforms at home were overshadowed by his hawkish foreign policy. Despite international opposition, Ecevit ordered Turkish troops into Cyprus in 1974 following a Greek-backed coup. His intervention split the island in two, and led to decades of deadlock with Greece...