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...backlash has taken hold. Texas, a pioneer in privatization under the enthusiastic leadership of Governor Rick Perry, saw its legislature impose a two-year moratorium on new projects. The Pennsylvania legislature bounced Rendell's first attempt to privatize the turnpike, though now he's trying again in the wake of shifting state politics. The mother of all toll roads, the New Jersey Turnpike, is under review, but Governor Jon Corzine, a former Goldman chairman, disappointed eager bankers in June when he flatly stated, "We're not going to privatize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Really Owns the Roads? | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...caliber recruits and respect from national pundits won’t come simply by beating upon New Havenites and suburban-dwelling Jersey Tigers. It will come from beating the likes of UCLA, UC Santa Clara, Wake Forest, and SMU, perpetual national powerhouses of the soccer scene...

Author: By Mauricio A. Cruz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CRUZ CONTROL: Plenty Still On Tap For Soccer | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...Senator Byron L. Dorgan, the commission?s chairman, said the 360-page study was "sober reading," a sign that repression was getting worse in China, despite promises of reform. He called the report a "wake-up call" to Washington decision-makers. The Chinese Embassy in Washington was called for a comment, but officials did not respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report: China Repression Worsening | 10/13/2007 | See Source »

...higher; we demand decision through discussion, and finality through debate.”Imagine, a Dean of the College with the temerity to take a decision without properly consulting his colleagues on the UC! The arrogance and inhumanity of it alone is appalling, especially in the broad and frothy wake of the incorrigibly-unilateral Summers. This alarming trend among Harvard administrators must be nipped in the bud. The UC, being the very model of collegiality and non-competitive collaboration, would be a great improvement. In a stinging indictment issued on Monday, Michael R. Ragalie ’09, chair...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Do You Hear The People Sing? | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

...provincial reconstruction teams carry on some work in southern Iraq. And in Diwaniya, a town east of Najaf, military trainers continue to work with local security forces. But for all practical purposes the Americans and the British have essentially left a region quickly becoming more turbulent in the wake of their departure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has the US Ceded Southern Iraq? | 10/8/2007 | See Source »

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