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...Hale, Lucas? indefatigably cheerful and helpful Director of Communications, to record the interview on her end too. It happened that, on both sides, a few minutes were lost. I?m amused that neither the world?s largest media company nor the galaxy?s preeminent group of movie futurists could pull off recording the entire conversation. But, as you?ll see, there was enough left on the tape to give you a peek into the mind of Lucas Skywalker...
...that the idea of a "brain drain" verges on a national neurosis. In the year to January, the number of New Zealanders permanently departing the country exceeded by 25,000 those returning home; two years earlier the gap was 11,200. About 90% of the dynamic comes from the pull of high-wage Australia. During last year's election campaign, Don Brash, leader of National, the main opposition party, argued that the exodus was caused by his country's miserable growth in incomes (which are one-third below Australia's, on average, after tax) despite a good economic performance under...
...attacks have cast the piercing light of public scrutiny on a mission that was approved with little attention and almost no debate, and some Canadians have begun to wonder whether the effort is worth it. "Canada should pull its troops out," York University professor James Laxer wrote in a commentary in the Globe and Mail last week, arguing that Canadians "are not engaged in peacekeeping" but participating in a war aimed at establishing U.S. "hegemony" in that part of the world...
...Samuelson said. “He had one of the better defenders on him, and instead of accepting that, he really took the initiative and was going hard all day.” But the lead was brief. By the end of the quarter, Massachusetts (3-0) pulled to within one, and just three minutes into the second quarter, the Minutemen tied the game up. Massachusetts senior Sean Morris helped his team to another two goals in the period, finishing with two goals and five assists. “[Morris] had a really good feeding day,” Crimson...
...battled hard to stay close throughout the game, trailing 5-2 at halftime and 7-3 after three quarters, but the Hawks (15-6, 4-0) took advantage of several Harvard miscues on offense and capitalized on several quick counters to score five times in the final quarter to pull away for the victory.“The fact that we hung with them for three quarters was good,” senior 2M-0 Mollie Mehaffey said. “Obviously, though, we wanted to keep up with them [for] 28 minutes.”The nine-goal differential...