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...Army ravages Cite Soleil, a Port-au-Prince slum that police are afraid to enter: the last time they did, a shoot-out claimed the lives of several innocent bystanders. In La Saline members of a local vigilante patrol discover the dead body of their leader. They swiftly select four suspected "robbers" and beat them to death. Then they set fire to 50 houses where they decide robbers are sheltered...
...investment bankers select candidates for IPOs only after careful scrutiny. "We turn down many more companies than we take public," Case says. But Case had few doubts about either Pixar or Netscape, whose executives he had known for years. Hambrecht eagerly teamed with fellow bankers to buy up all the offered shares of both companies and then staged nationwide "road shows" to tout the stock to big investors like mutual funds. The tours generated so much excitement that Netscape, which had been tentatively priced at $12 to $14 a share, went public at $28. Hambrecht's profit for co-managing...
Observers have speculated that Dole will select Whitman as a running mate if he receives the Republican nomination...
...criteria used to select the fellows include political experience, past leadership roles and an interest in interacting with students and faculty, Donovan says...
...that time of the semester again. Yes, we know it's not pleasant. But it seems that by some sort of natural necessity Mother Harvard is semi-annually made to spew forth students from a number of her Core courses based on nothing more than random selection. In order to limit class size, Harvard professors are often forced to select their pupils by lottery. The unfortunate victims of these lotteries emerge from the shopping period feeling rejected and unsatiated in their selection of courses...