Word: stanley
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...Celtics have won 16 NBA championships, the Bruins five Stanley Cups and the Patriots two Super Bowls. Those were appreciated, but New England's soul belonged to the denizens of Fenway Park. Citizens of Red Sox Nation even came to believe they had been cursed. Baseball may no longer be America's pastime, but it has always been Boston's passion play. And last week the good guys finally triumphed. The Red Sox won the World Series...
...After years of surprisingly strong growth, Asian economies are slowing down. In October, Morgan Stanley downgraded its 2005 GDP growth forecast for the region (excluding Japan) to 5.5%, compared with 7.2% in 2004. The main culprits are the record-high price of oil, an expected weakening of the U.S. economy and an ailing dollar, which makes Asian products more expensive for U.S. consumers and curbs export growth. But a new factor putting the brakes on Asia is China. Over the past two years, soaring demand from China for everything from steel to palm oil to semiconductors has been the engine...
...they fare against the hotels and airlines, which have begun trying to drive bookings to their own websites with guaranteed lowest rates and amenities like a free spa visit. "The Holy Grail for online travel firms will become dynamic packaging," says analyst Christopher Gutek at Morgan Stanley...
...will fit that definition when thousands of human skulls are stacked up in memorials as in Rwanda. What is more genocidal than the story you reported: a 1-year-old baby boy being tossed up in the air and shot? Please, U.N. members, unite and help the Africans now. Stanley Washynton Zurich The situation in Darfur reminded me of the lawless state of nature described by the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, in which life is "nasty, brutish and short." If urgent steps are not taken by the Sudanese government and the international community to end the Darfur atrocities, the fighting...
...proposals range from defenses of the Core Curriculum to recommendations for a distributional requirement or even suggestions for new integrative, interdisciplinary approaches. A central theme of the professors’ thoughts is the need for students to learn to think and read critically, a process which Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann terms “the training of judgment.” A related issue, but one which not all professors seem to have tackled, is one we students face daily: the problem of reading...