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...Reuters reported in October 2004 that Sinopec had purchased a six percent stake in two Sudanese oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of the country. And the Washington Post reported in December that Sinopec is constructing a pipeline connecting the Melut Basin, in the south of Sudan, to a tanker terminal...
...past, a Harvard education has been the privilege of the upper-middle class and rich. According to Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, currently less than 15 percent of enrolled Harvard students come from the poorest 60 percent of households. However, it is clear that Harvard is working to change this disproportionate representation. Last year, President Lawrence H. Summers and Fitzsimmons created the HFAI, stipulating that families earning $40,000 a year or less do not have to contribute any money, and those earning between $40,000 and $60,000 have to pay substantially less...
...Jump, you idiot,” shouted the guy in front of me for the eighth time at the man standing at the edge of the upper tier about forty feet above...
...poll published in Stern magazine last week, while the CDU rose to 46%. Crucial elections take place on May 22 in North Rhine Westphalia, and recent polls show the SPD could lose that traditional stronghold to the CDU. Defeats in both states would give the CDU control of the upper house, the Bundesrat, putting a stranglehold on government legislation. Still, Jürgen Falter, a political scientist at the University of Mainz, thinks Schröder and his Green partners "have absolutely no alternative" to sticking together - and hoping the economy picks...
Misti Cordova, 20, decided to go to First View after seeing a flyer in a Babies "R" Us. The video-store clerk soon found herself sitting in a tidy office park and cooing as she watched her unborn baby curl his upper lip: "Looks like he's doing an Elvis pose...