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...says of the award given to the school with the best overall athletic performance in both men's and women's sports. "You win that by winning national titles. You don't win it by how many women coaches you have." Thanks to Title IX, women have a bigger stake in college athletics. Just don't count on them to call the plays...
...Mosque, an operation to root out extremists in the heart of the Pakistani capital, has become the first salvo in a new civil war for the nation's soul. Musharraf has weathered the protests of the pro-democracy movement, but his survival, political and otherwise, is still at stake in the face of growing violence in Pakistan's tribal areas and an increased number of suicide car bombings from a cadre that has declared jihad on the government. The three A's that shaped Pakistan's destiny - the army, Allah, and America - now need to converge to tackle al-Qaeda...
...Bush says that he will not abandon his Iraq policy unless General David Petraeus declares it a failure in September. Regardless of the truth, I already know the basis of the general's report. With his reputation and career at stake, Petraeus will say exactly what the President wants to hear: The surge is making progress and requires more time and more troops for success. Those familiar with big corporations know that the CEO rarely has a clear understanding of what is happening in his company. With reputations and careers at stake, a story becomes rosier as it passes...
...country's poorest regions, is plunging into the middle of a takeover fight for one of Europe's biggest and most venerable banks. Teaming up with Singapore's state-owned investment vehicle, Temasek--which will put up an initial $1.9 billion--CDB will fork over $3 billion for a stake in Barclays, the British bank locked in a struggle with a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) to acquire Amsterdam-based ABN Amro. If Barclays increases its $94 billion cash-and-stock bid--unlikely unless Barclays' stock price rises--to beat RBS's $98 billion offer, CDB will...
...largely via exports (it exported $969 billion worth of goods last year) and by attracting huge amounts of foreign direct investment, mostly from manufacturers taking advantage of its low labor costs. That is changing rapidly. A month ago, Beijing's recently formed State Investment Co. bought a $3 billion stake in the Blackstone Group just before the U.S. private-equity giant went public (an investment that so far is more than $300 million under water). This and the CDB stake in Barclays are the most high-profile foreign investments China has made since the oil firm CNOOC tried and failed...