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...Hillary in the earlier debates or of largely white TV personalities piling on Obama about Jeremiah Wright in the much trashed ABC debate and before. Finally, there are solid business reasons. If TV news has any hope of finding another generation of viewers, hiring staff who reflect younger viewers' reality is relevant...
Drawn by the potential for rapid growth in some of Asia's younger cell-phone markets, Telenor has been expanding in the region for more than a decade. The company now has 50 million subscribers in Asia, 17 times its number in Norway. The area now accounts for some 30% of Telenor's $17 billion in annual revenues, and will generate 36% in a couple of years, according to estimates by investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort. Asia, says Arild Nysaether, telecoms analyst at investment bank Fondsfinans in Oslo, is simply "the most important part of Telenor." And it's a point...
...raise money for Iraqi higher education, aiming to defray as many expenses as possible for Iraqi students studying abroad. Elizabeth A. Goodman-Bacon ’10, who recently bought a shirt, says, “I think by selling the shirts here they’ll reach younger crowds in the college scene, and students are the perfect audience because the goal is higher education.” The T-shirts cost $20, and all proceeds will go directly towards establishing scholarships at undergraduate and graduate schools that admit Iraqi students in high numbers. After raising nearly...
...undoubtedly a good night for Clinton, her opponent could take comfort in the results as well. Six weeks ago, when both candidates turned their attention to this contest, Obama had just gotten thumped in Ohio, a state with an open primary and demographics that are actually somewhat friendlier (younger, more black) for him than Pennsylvania. Obama trailed Clinton by an average of 18 points in Pennsylvania polls at the time. And that was before the toughest six weeks he has endured thus far in the campaign, before Jeremiah Wright and the Tony Rezko trial, before "bitter" and flag pins...
...force Mugabe to resolve the crisis. But Zimbabwe's neighbors are divided among themselves over how to respond, and all are wary of an anarchic breakdown that brings thousands more refugees streaming across the border. Although Mugabe has long traded on his credentials as an anti-imperialist liberation hero, younger leaders in the region are exasperated by Mugabe's behavior. On Friday, Botswana's foreign minister, Phandu Skelemani, broke ranks with his SADC peers to publicly criticize Mbeki's handling of the crisis and admit that leaders are more concerned about the situation than is reflected in their public statements...