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Radcliffe finished its season with the third rank in the east and the nation...
...mere $2.5 million. The state will now have a 55.6% share in Russia's biggest company. I N D I C A T O R S The Cup Of Gold Even economists want a piece of the World Cup action. A new report sees correlation between GDP and FIFA rank (with the notable exceptions of the U.S. and Argentina). And although Japan may lose, its flagging economy should win: from 1954 to 1998, GDP growth for host nations averaged 3.3%. Low Blow For High Tech n Resourceful nerds and music lovers cracked Sony's much-vaunted - and more maligned - compact...
...their race is admittedly less appealing than a program that purports to take into account the entire “experience” of a student when seeking to diversify a student body. Public universities like the University of Michigan rely on numerical systems and admit students that rank high on a certain scale. When these systems result in low minority admissions, they manipulate the scale in order to give minorities an extra boost...
...years after residents braved a hostile militia to vote for independence, the former Indonesian territory prepared to become a sovereign nation on May 20. To help it on its way, donors representing 27 countries and organizations pledged a total of $440 million in aid, but the country will still rank as one of the poorest in the world. Half the population live on less than 55? a day. AUSTRALIA "Pacific Solution" Citing "border security" as a priority, the government announced a massive increase in spending to deter migrants from arriving in Australian waters to seek asylum. Presenting the annual budget...
...call it the "few bad apples" defense?is depressingly familiar to rights activists. "Abuses by the military are too widespread for it to be just a question of individuals," says Aris Santoso, a military analyst with a Jakarta think tank. "The institution itself must take the blame." Four middle-ranking soldiers and one police officer are currently on trial in Jakarta for a 1999 mass killing in East Timor. It is Indonesia's first human-rights court, but many doubt it will throw any light on the role senior officers played in orchestrating the violence. Another case in point...