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...available, counties in northern Xinjiang with larger Han populations are wealthier than in the largely Uighur south of the region. Witnesses said the rioters last week were young Uighur men, and some observers have suggested they were poorer migrant workers from the south of the region rather than long-term residents...
...have suffered only a glancing blow. The word redecoupling is beginning to appear in the media. Nandan Nilekani, who is about to leave the chairmanship of Indian tech company Infosys for a government post, speaks of "tactical coupling" and "strategic decoupling." That is, nobody could escape the short-term effects of a global crisis, but the basic BIC growth story still holds. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
...never intended to last for more than two years. The temporary program was approved because students who came to Harvard before 2007 did not have the chance to get the vaccine under their full insurance before arriving. The University's Student Health Plan, which can cost $1,420 per term, does not normally cover immunizations...
...Long term, the USOC would benefit much more from a Chicago win than a new network. And if all goes well, it could end up with both. The IOC still has a financial incentive to select Chicago: U.S. media outlets would offer the organization millions of dollars in fees to broadcast a domestic Olympics. But it's still bad politics to risk alienating IOC voters. The USOC has undergone a management shake-up since the Beijing Games: former CEO Jim Scheer was pushed out and replaced by Stephanie Streeter, a four-year board member, on an interim basis. Right...
Youn finds that "fears that Judge Sotomayor is an 'activist' or 'outlier' or 'out of the mainstream' have no basis in her record of constitutional cases." Instead, Youn argues, her judicial profile is "very much in line with her colleagues." The study gives a brief overview of the term "judicial activism" and explains how it has been saddled with negative connotations since Marbury v. Madison established the court's power of judicial review in 1803. Specifics of the cases reviewed aren't available in the report, but the study nonetheless paints a good statistical portrait of what might be expected...