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...protect the best players, it will protect the mediocre ones," Wenger has argued. "And you don't win a World Cup with mediocre players." Indeed, despite Ferguson's quota-friendly talk, he is not averse to using the best foreign talent he can find. On Wednesday, his Red Devils continued their march through the Champions League with a 4-0 thrashing of Dynamo Kiev - fueled by goals from Spanish defender Gerard Pique, Argentine striker Carlos Tevez and Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo...
...states to choose to follow Sacramento's lead. Following in that tradition, in 2005 California passed a law that would tighten greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, starting with 2009 models, eventually leading to a 30% reduction in overall global warming emissions by model year 2016. Sixteen other states, both red and blue, have moved to adopt California's standards since, but to implement the legislation, Sacramento needed a routine waiver from the federal Environmental Protection Agency...
Such uncertainties have affected foreign universities operating in China since Beijing opened up its higher-education sector in the 1980s. There are now 800 programs jointly run by foreign and Chinese schools, but government directives, bureaucratic red tape and other hassles make them an ongoing challenge for Western partners. Southwest University was one of the dozens whose programs were cancelled during a relicensing campaign the Ministry of Education initiated years ago. But American interest, particularly for starting business schools, remains high. "Any business school that wants to remain relevant is going to be actively involved in engaging its students...
...late-October Quinnipiac University survey underscored this point. Nationally, it showed Clinton being edged out by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, 45% to 43%, within the margin of error. In red states, however, she ran behind him, 49% to 40%, and she trailed, 47% to 41%, in the purple ones. By comparison, Illinois Senator Barack Obama beat Giuliani by a single percentage point (43% to 42%) nationally but held that same margin in the purple states and came within 6 points (45% to 39%) in the red ones...
Celebrating these occasions serially is hard enough; handling them simultaneously makes you dizzy. Red-letter days are our measuring sticks, the fixed points from one year to the next by which we can tell how much we've changed. They let us gauge the function or dysfunction of the clan, see how our hopes ferment, our kids grow and ripen. Little sister wears big sister's Easter dress from two years ago, and you suspect she's going to end up taller. The cub scouts in the annual Memorial Day parade are eagles now. So in the spirit of holiday...