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...oblivion for a star of the international game - even most of the players on Team USA are signed to pro teams in Europe once they've done enough to attract the attention of foreign scouts. And David Beckham clearly wasn't ready for oblivion. The 33-year-old England wide man, who in 2007 joined the Los Angeles Galaxy on a $250 million five-year contract, looks set to return to Europe, next January, and join glamor club AC Milan on loan. If the deal is finalized in the wake of Milan's premature announcement Wednesday, it would mark...
...have slots to fill this fall will cut back on the number of schools they visit. Rather than covering all corners of the country, some firms are focusing on a smaller core group of schools. That may hurt schools further afield that ordinarily benefit from companies casting a wide net. •Heightened Competition As the financial recruiting process slows, students who had planned on working in finance are competing more aggressively for consulting and other positions...
...This self-confidence of modern China, and other Asian societies, too, has had profound implications. At the most basic level, it has encouraged a wide-eyed admiration. In 2004, the World Bank held a global conference on poverty reduction in Shanghai, and I remember press reports describing the scene each evening. African delegates would gather on the Bund and look over the brown waters of the Whampoa to Pudong, gazing in wonder on an unearthly tableau of neon and skyscrapers built on marshes and paddyfields in not much more than 10 years...
...Court is in Session," you state that the court "will hear testimony in coming weeks" in a wide variety of cases [The World, Oct. 20]. You should know better. The Supreme Court hears oral argument on legal issues only. Any testimony--which is defined as fact- based information offered under oath or through documents--takes place in the trial court. By the time a case reaches the Supreme Court, only legal matters are at issue. You should 'fess up to your mistake or, as we judges like to say, issue an erratum (yes, we do make mistakes) in your next...
They run, March, curse, fight, sing--and occasionally die--on a cavernous expanse of stage nearly half a football field wide. In their dress-up uniforms, they're an exotic-looking bunch: wearing kilts, playing bagpipes, sporting tam-o'-shanters with a red feather. This Scottish army regiment seems out of place in Iraq, transferred from Basra to bolster U.S. troops bogged down in the "triangle of death" near Baghdad. But their plainspoken, Highland-accented gripes about the war have a familiar ring. "You're no' really doing the job you're trained for," says one soldier...