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...Investigations into these deaths yield hardly any results. Of 114 political murders recorded since 2001 by a special police task force, arrests have been made in just three cases, with no reported convictions. Even if the killers are ever caught and prosecuted, their bosses will almost certainly remain unknown or untouchable. Last month three men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2005 murder of a prominent antigraft journalist called Marlene Esperat, shot dead while dining with her children. Rynche Garcia Arcones, 24, Esperat's daughter, felt shortchanged. "We want the mastermind," she told the Philippine Daily Inquirer...
...propping up failing carriers with taxpayer bail-outs after Sept. 11--including US Airways, in 2003. The result is a still flabby industry dominated by legacy airlines that can't make decent money. Flights today are usually 80% full, but average profits on tickets--what the airlines call yield--are down 24% since 2000, according to AirlineForecasts, an aviation consulting firm. Major airlines have lost or written off $50 billion in the past five years, and two of them, Delta and Northwest, are still in bankruptcy...
...Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has ranked Harvard first in terms of black student yield for the third year in a row. Harvard’s black student yield for the Class of 2010—70.9 percent—is still 9.1 percent lower than its overall yield rate of 80 percent. The University slipped from second to fifth place in the ranking in terms of black student enrollment as a percent of the entire class. Black students comprised 9.3 percent of both the Class of 2009 and 2010, The Crimson reported. The University of North Carolina...
...simply not worth the potential consequences (Viswanathan, Kaavya; 2006). If you get caught, you’ll find yourself suspended for a year from Harvard and working the night shift as a security guard for a morgue (anonymous friend) or stuck in Iraq (Kerry, John; 2006). Plus, cheating might yield some unforeseen side effects, such as home run records, uncontrollable rage, and the diminution of one’s “manhood” (Bonds, Barry). At least with my new citation practices, I never have to worry about being accused of plagiarism. Well, I guess I should never...
...captain Charles Altchek said. “We’ve been in this spot before, going up to Dartmouth, playing them in a game of this magnitude where first place is on the line.” But last year’s game against Dartmouth did not yield the results Harvard desired. After a scoreless match in which Altchek was knocked unconscious, the Big Green slipped one in during the 90th minute of game, taking a 1-0 victory over the Crimson. “I definitely remember the feeling I had after the game, you know, knowing...