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...still negotiating with the administration...Right now I don't know what's going to happen," said the course's instructor, Boston University professor Victor B. Manfredi '78-'79. "I respect the students enormously for their interest and dedication...
While Japan is still in trouble, the rest of Asia "has come out of the bottom of the valley," claimed Victor Fung, chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council. Export growth is so strong, in fact, that Fung was concerned that "we may have come out of recession too early to get fundamental reforms." The region remains enthralled by a familiar theme: the emergence of China. Its entry into the World Trade Organization later this year, said Fung, "signifies China's taking its full place in the world." The prospects for growth are immense. Fung noted, for instance, that...
Other attractions are just plain distracting. Taking a cue from Cirque du Soleil's O and Mystere (still the most flabbergasting spectacles on the planet), the Paris has put on its own French-accented musical. Notre Dame de Paris gives Victor Hugo's Quasimodo tale a pop-rock attitude, as the performers growl Richard Cocciante's ho-hummable score into their Madonna mikes. A few fine singers (Janien Masse as Esmeralda, Francis Ruivivar as Frollo) can't save the old tragedy from becoming a new disaster. The show's big, all right: a big mess...
...right, which makes up an unusually large chunk of South Carolina Republicans (roughly 35 percent). Exit polls in South Carolina revealed that John McCain won every major demographic group except for religious conservatives, who overwhelmingly supported Bush. But while many thought South Carolina would provide huge momentum to its victor, a Zogby poll taken the day after Bush's victory showed McCain ahead by two points in Michigan - the same margin he held in midweek polling...
...days as a Maoist guerrilla leader, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe set about winning over the countryside first and gradually encircling the beleaguered white settler minority in the towns. But the war of liberation ended 20 years ago - Mugabe has been president ever since - and its victor on Tuesday suffered a historic defeat at the hands of the black urban poor. The president's authoritarian constitutional proposals (which included the right to summarily dissolve parliament) were rejected by 55 percent of voters, despite Mugabe's attempt to woo his traditional peasant support base with a promise to nationalize the country...