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...chosen by parliament to replace Megawati as Vice President after she was elected by the same body to succeed the impeached Abdurrahman Wahid. Haz is the head of Indonesia's main Muslim political group, the United Development Party, the third largest party in parliament; in 1999 he opposed Megawati's first bid for the presidency on the ground that the world's largest Muslim country should not be run by a woman. Megawati's secular Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle controls just one-third of the seats in parliament. High unemployment and chronic government corruption have caused many to doubt...
...German court fined him €500,000 "As unpopular as this is to say now, a lot of analysts are pretty good." Chuck Clough, CEO of Clough Capital Partners, showing how analysts' newfound caution extends even to praise of themselves "They know that a certain number of morons will succeed under any system by pure chance." Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, on why statisticians don't write management books
Murphy said reading Harvard’s response makes her more confident in that the student complaint will succeed...
Even without any formal and meaningful voice in University decisions—a voice students urgently need—students have at times managed to succeed in influencing Harvard’s policy. We hope HAC is likewise successful, and that Harvard vigorously pressures Coca-Cola to provide all its workers in Africa with health coverage for AIDS treatment...
...Ibrahim Bilal, gave himself up Oct. 6 in Malaysia, where he was studying at the International Islamic University in Kuala Lumpur. According to a Jordanian student at the university who asks to be identified only as "Abdullah," Bilal told him he had tried to enter Afghanistan but couldn't succeed once the U.S. bombing had begun...