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...should be enough to keep them in contention. And don't miss Sri Lanka's man with the golden arm, spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, sometimes known as the smiling assassin because he grins incessantly as he mercilessly bowls out opposing batsmen. For South Africa, meanwhile, there is the chance to recoup from a disastrous semifinal of the 1999 World Cup, when a dreadful mix-up with two balls remaining between their batsmen Allan Donald and Lance Klusener - named player of the tournament - gave victory to Australia, who went on to win the final. A primary host country has never...
After California outlawed the use of any racial classifications in public university admissions, the percentage of black and Hispanic students admitted to the best law schools in the UC system declined precipitously—in spite of these schools’ efforts to recoup minority enrollment by supposedly race-neutral means such as socioeconomic class. At UCLA law school, the percentage of admitted students who are black declined from 10.3 percent to 1.4 percent from 1996 to 2000. Berkeley, despite scrutinizing each application for evidence of “talents that were not identified by test scores or other standardized...
...projected $2 million state budget shortfall. Last week, in reference to contributions, Romney said, “I don’t believe in corporate welfare. I certainly don’t believe in political welfare either.” He vowed to examine whether the state would fully recoup whatever investments it pledges for the convention. We hope that Romney’s skepticism is not politically motivated, and that he will negotiate fairly with the city in the coming months for the state’s share of costs...
...operation. Officials say that's too close for comfort. They fear the two facilities will wind up competing for visitors from mainland China, which had been expected to contribute about 75% of Hong Kong Disneyland's customers in its first few years. Hong Kong has a big investment to recoup: the city agreed to pay $2.9 billion toward the park's construction. Disney chipped in a mere $314 million, for which the company will get a hefty 43% ownership stake along with management fees...
Dotcoms offering film and music on personal computers - so-called streaming media - have gone bust, and TV broadcasters pushing video-on-demand (VOD) won't recoup returns on their investments any time soon. But a multimedia service launched in Europe last month is hoping to show that the convergence of TV and the Web can counter this unhappy trend. Lots of different media players - software summoned by conventional Web browsers - enable you to play sound or video clips embedded in Web pages on the PC. But RealNetworks' RealOne SuperPass for Europe goes beyond other services. It is a one-stop...