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...University’s ban, Victor D. Ban ’04 changed his summer plans—instead of going to China to conduct research, Ban has decided to go to Korea instead...
...million financial package, and shareholders would get a chance to vote on it. First, they got a chance to sound off. "This American-style remuneration has no place in this country, and if you don't revise this package you will have set a very dangerous precedent," shareholder Victor Silk told HSBC chairman John Bond. But in the end, Aldinger carried off his saucer of cream with relative ease. Bond's argument that Aldinger would be getting slightly less than his previous pay package was grudgingly accepted by the majority of shareholders, and institutional investors voted heavily in his favor...
...last December between the two sides. Separatist rebels have been fighting for an independent Aceh since 1976. PRESIDENT BY DEFAULT ARGENTINA Presidential candidate Carlos Menem withdrew from the race just days before a runoff vote after polls showed his opponent, Nestor Kirchner, would win in a landslide. Kirchner, now victor by default, will assume the presidency on May 25. With the country facing massive foreign debt and half the population in poverty, Kirchner says he will work to restore the confidence of the IMF to regain economic stability. MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ... COLOR MY WORLD The Missile Defense Agency, part...
Trying to explain feminist opposition to paternity justice laws, Victor Smith, president of Dads Against Discrimination, observes that Americans “have a healthy disrespect for fathers. It’s socially ingrained in our society.” But Bernard Goldberg, a CBS journalist who covered the paternity fraud crisis in 1998, proposes a more sinister hypothesis: Americans have developed hostility toward...
...accepting the North's latest demands for economic assistance. But Washington isn't biting. Even U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, widely seen as relatively moderate, has refused to embrace the North's blueprint. "This proposal is a nonstarter," says an Administration official. The result? "Roh is conflicted," says Victor Cha, a Korea expert at Georgetown University. "He has no choice but to take a harder line if he wants to retain any shred of credibility...