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...million to €635 million last year, a pace expected to settle down at €500 million for the foreseeable future. With 15% of that money credited to the public debt, state bookkeepers will applaud, but the French attachment to the nation's patrimoine has sparked "a deeper, wider wave of opposition to this than to any of our other reforms." Is the resistance just misguided nostalgia? Properties the size of the Hôtel Kinsky in central Paris are rare, "but its interior is neither historic nor stately," sniffs Thierry Cardot, whose Luxury Observatory researches upmarket markets. He reckons...
...previous surveys, including the Mellon Foundation’s deacde-old study, “College and Beyond,” long considered a seminal work. College and Beyond targeted 34 selective colleges, but Harvard did not take part. Goldin and Katz’s study analyzes a wider range of cohorts than the two its namesake investigated. In addition to the three groups of four graduating classes, the investigators also included the Radcliffe Class of 1973 to establish a gender balance and the Class of 1988 as a test survey class. According to Ward, 30 to 40 percent...
...Assistant Director Chip Burrus, head of the Criminal Investigative Division, put the Ney plea deal in context, stressing that it is just part of a much wider federal crackdown on corruption. "The FBI is deeply committed to tackling corruption anywhere we find it-this is our promise to the American people, and corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority," he said. "We have more than 600 agents and dozens of analysts working more than 2200 investigations in all 56 field offices right now. Nationwide indictments are up 40 percent. In the past year alone, we have had over...
...that the group pledged its loyalty and assistance to Zarqawi back in March of 2005," said one senior French counter-terror official, referring to the Qaeda In Iraq leader, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, killed in April. "Frankly, we still view any networks or projects Zarqawi's wider group may have begun before he was killed as more immediately dangerous than a new partnership with al Qaeda. Just what kind of strings Zawahiri can pull in hiding probably don't compare to the reach Zarqawi and his group had - and may still command...
...changing the rules, Harvard may succeed in opening its gates wider to kids who don't get to spend their junior years perfecting their essays. NACAC and other colleges aren't pushing to end early admissions altogether. But after its vote in October, the shouts of "I got in!" may have to wait at least until senior year begins...