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...That's money left on the table by a nation that is hard pressed to pay for basic infrastructure. Little wonder the pressure will be on Yudhoyono to make swift progress on the economic front. Yudhoyono "gives the impression of someone who has an understanding of the problems and has a clear idea of what needs to be done and how he's going to do it," says Agost Benard, a credit analyst at Standard & Poor's in Singapore. But political honeymoons tend to be short, and the feel-good factor could easily fade if first impressions quickly prove unfounded...
Despite earning strong scores on his Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) in Grade 3, Davin wasn't invited to join the school's talented-and-gifted (TAG) program until the following year--an oversight Knipfer attributes to the family's social standing in a small town. Laura runs a day-care service in their home, and her husband Russell is a truck driver. "We're low income, and I'm not in the local political game," she says. (School superintendent Jody Gray denies this and says Davin was enrolled in TAG as soon as the school recognized his gifts...
...Bush is quoted as saying "I'm not the historian. I'm the guy making history." Yes, but what kind of history? Hitler and Saddam were also the guys making history. It is amazing and frightening that the head of the U.S. military is intellectually incapable of perceiving some basic distinctions. Those who want to see what kind of history Bush is making should have a look at his unmistakable cowboy posturing. Yehia El-Ezabi Cairo You reported that "Bush constantly cites the example of postwar Germany and Japan to argue that it is far too soon to call Iraq...
Kagan, who has described the former Hark as “an above-ground tunnel for light-allergic people,” said the basic structure of the building was retained but that the entire interior was redesigned...
DIED. BOB EVANS, 77, computer scientist who led the development of a new class of mainframe computers during the industry's fledgling days, transforming the basic architecture of computers and substantially reducing the cost of powerful computing; in Hillsborough, Calif. As an engineering manager at IBM, he convinced the company to invest more than $5 billion in the new system, opening five plants and hiring 60,000 employees. The risky undertaking paid off, as the famous 360s--named after the number of degrees in a circle--helped turn IBM into a data-processing power soon after their introduction...