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...throw in the towel in a market with 1.3 billion potential customers. After more than a decade of negotiations, Disney has received clearance to build its second Disneyland in China, this one in Shanghai. The company announced on Tuesday that China's top planning agency had approved plans to build the new theme park, which will join the existing parks in Anaheim, Calif.; Orlando, Fla., Tokyo, Paris and Hong Kong. (See a brief history of Disney teen stars...
...leader who, after discounting illegitimate ballots, did not meet the 50 percent vote threshold required to be declared president of Afghanistan after the first round of voting. While there was no guarantee that fraud would not plague the runoff as well, Abdullah’s participation in a second round of voting would have enhanced the legitimacy of the election. A runoff, which would have been subject to intense public scrutiny, would have at least represented a new opportunity for a more open election and given the victor some level of legitimacy that is not currently present...
...course, the night played out differently for everyone. A few athletes invited their crew coach. A handful of students said they had wanted to invite their professors but later found out they have already been asked by other students, so they were forced to go with a second choice. It kind of reminded FlyBy of high school prom, except, instead of that cute guy in math class...
Down 4-2 to University of New Hampshire (12-6, 3-2 America East) in the second half, Harvard sophomores Carly Dickson and Allie Kimmel scored two goals in the match’s final 24 minutes to send the game into overtime...
Kimmel got the comeback started for the Crimson in the second half. After UNH goalie Katherine Nagengast strayed from her post to knock away a Harvard breakaway, Kimmel scooped up the ball and lobbed it over the goalie’s head to bring the Crimson within a single goal...