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...Union we are becoming weaker, in my view because many of us have prematurely thrown in the towel. We, the members, are the Union, and it is our responsibility to each other and to the future security, health, benefit and strength of our work lives at Harvard to turn this thing around...
...this at a disadvantage." That statement was never turned over to the defense. Later, at the trial, Babin said she was "100% certain" Cousin was the killer. A few days after the end of the trial, an anonymous source mailed the defense a copy of Babin's earlier, weaker statement...
...tells me, "my position has become weaker, because there's been no development, no progress. In spite of my open approach, of maximum concessions, the Chinese position becomes even harder and harder." Last year all photographs of the exiled leader were banned in Tibet, and monks and nuns continue to be imprisoned and tortured at will, in what the International Commission of Jurists long ago called a policy of "genocide." Yet, he argues, all but banging his fist on the arm of his chair, "to isolate China is totally wrong. China needs the outside world, and the outside world needs...
...Meanwhile, there were further indications that Japan was succumbing to regional woes: The government reported that Japan's trade surplus was up 59 percent in November from the previous year, yet exports to Asian neighbors dropped for the first time in more than three years. The reason: Weaker Asian currencies are making Japanese goods more expensive, while slower economic growth in nearby countries is cutting into demand for goods...
...Microsoft's Bill Gates and Buffett have privately expressed interest in the company, believing the Journal and Dow Jones brands are all underleveraged assets. Jettisoning one weak division may not be a panacea. The company will probably take an estimated $800 million write-off. And strategically it will become weaker in electronic distribution, a critical channel in the media industry's future...