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...heart sinks, but I know they can't hurt him anymore.' KEITH MAUPIN, father of Staff Sergeant Keith Matthew Maupin, who in 2004 became the first U.S. soldier in Iraq to be declared missing in action, after his son's remains were identified Numbers
...fact that Mayawati is seriously discussed as a possible next Prime Minister is evidence of how far she has come. Born one of nine children to a low-level civil servant and an illiterate mother, Mayawati used her street smarts and the affirmative-action programs designed to help India's downtrodden to study teaching and then law. She joined the BSP in 1984 and, as the head of unstable coalitions, went on to become Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister for three brief stints before last year's breakout victory when the party won outright...
...which are forthcoming under a new U.S.-led police-training program. Last fall President Hamid Karzai admitted that several unnamed high-ranking officials were involved in corruption, saying at a development conference, "the banks of the world are full of the money of our statesmen." Karzai swore to take action but five months later, not a single official has been brought to trial. Meanwhile, some officials build mansions and buy armored SUVs worth far more than their annual salaries...
...cost factories as well as to its fast-growing middle class. The projected $300 million annual income boost from the free-trade agreement "is obviously worth having," says Skilling. But "given that our total exports are about $NZ40 billion [$32 billion] a year, it's pretty small." The real action, he says, will lie in the "dynamic effect" of a bigger Kiwi presence in China and "the signal that, Hey, China is an increasingly important market...
...heart sinks, but I know they can't hurt him anymore.' KEITH MAUPIN, father of Staff Sergeant Keith Matthew Maupin, who in 2004 became the first U.S. soldier in Iraq to be declared missing in action, after his son's remains were identified...