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...leader of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), Michael W. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, showed up at the rally here to support the NYU strikers, and he said that SLAM would support a unionization drive at Harvard. But, he added, graduate students “at a place like Harvard are often afraid to speak...
...Olympics, they're headed for center court. Last week, in a tough match against Australian Samantha Stosur and American Lisa Raymond, China's YAN ZI and ZHENG JIE survived two match points to win the Australian Open women's doubles final-and claim China's first-ever Grand Slam title...
...tries to eclipse its all-time high of 11,723, which was reached six years ago and which many market pros believe finally will be seen again later this year. That's not exactly a news flash: it would require only a 6.5% move, which should be a slam-dunk in any year without a recession on the immediate horizon...
...highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when the year-opening grand slam kicks off in Melbourne next week...
...which officials were discouraged from sending Bush inconvenient information--such as doubts about the quality of intelligence on Iraq's program for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Tenet is no stranger to opprobrium (his reputation will never recover from his telling Bush that the evidence on WMD was a "slam dunk"), but the verdict of his subordinates in State of War is particularly withering. "George Tenet liked to talk about how he was a tough Greek from Queens," a former Tenet aide tells Risen before going on to use a vulgar word for wimp to describe him instead. "He just...