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...profited handsomely by catering to customers who don't have a lot to spend. In 2007, the company's pre-tax profit was $370 million, making it what was believed to be the most successful company in the continent outside South Africa. The more stunning figure is its subscriber base - which grew from less than 20,000 in 2000 to about 10 million today, upending the conventional wisdom that sub-Saharan Africans, especially in places like Kenya where income averages out to a dollar a day, had no interest in a mobile phone...
...coach Joe Walsh turned to ace and usual starter Shawn Haviland in an attempt to keep the game close. With one out, Haviland worked around the Crusaders’ top hitter, Brendan Akashian (1-for-3, RBI) and put him on with a walk.One out later and a stolen base later, first baseman Eric Oxford delivered a triple that was helped by some forceful winds, and Akashian came around with the run that put Holy Cross on top for good.“[Akashian] is their best guy, I’ve played against him in the summer...
...This is good old-fashioned retail campaigning, with perhaps a feint to surprise and unbalance the Clinton campaign and force her to contest every delegate," said Donald Kettl, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. "In some of these communities, he's been playing to his base, such as the rally at Penn State. However, he's also made a few long reaches, such as bowling in Altoona, as much of a white-guy play as one could make...
...think that’s true,” Madick said. PRINCETON 5, HARVARD 4The long-awaited Ivy opener went off without much of a bang. Despite getting more hits and drawing more walks than the Tigers, the key statistic for the Crimson was the 11 base runners it stranded on the bags.Harvard’s inability to capitalize on those opportunities opened the door for Princeton to squeeze out its first one-run win of the day.“If we had more timely hits we would have won the game by one run instead of losing...
...Smithson, a senior fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, D.C., said that the technical difficulties and expenses for the cleanup are substantial, but that Japan has the technological base to get on with the project - if the political will is in place. "Not surprisingly," Smithson said, "the Chinese and some outside observers have criticized the snail's pace of destruction efforts." That pace has just gotten even slower, highlighting the difficulty the two countries continue to face in putting a nasty past behind them...