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...Gorbachev effect" - getting applause abroad for things unpopular at home. And no matter how Iraq resolves, it is likely to be Blair's last big foreign adventure. There's no other place Bush might fight where he will follow. That leaves Blair the hard slog of Labour's core mission: fixing the public services. Some improvements are beginning to show; the best British 15-year-olds now perform close to the top of international league tables, and last week a doctors' panel noted big gains in the speed of getting anti-clotting drugs to heart-attack patients, something the government...
...decidedly low ceiling - it can harass the U.S. forces and make their stay uncomfortable and costly, but it is unlikely ever to muster the national challenge that confronted the U.S. in Vietnam. And coalition commanders are hoping that the early capture or elimination of Saddam Hussein and other core Baathist leaders will speed the collapse of the resistance...
...under the hammer, Artémis - the Pinault family's holding company - issued j520 million in bonds that it said was to be used to refinance existing bank debt. That was separate from the j1 billion-plus convertible bond issue announced only days earlier by the firm at the core of the Pinault empire - a publicly traded retail conglomerate called Pinault Printemps-Redoute (PPR), in which Pinault holds a 42% stake. PPR has also sold more than j3 billion in assets this year. People close to Pinault insist that the timing of these transactions is purely coincidental, and that...
Reviews of the Core in the 1990s revealed general satisfaction with the system: 90 percent of Core courses were taught by senior faculty, students were happy with their concentration courses and even intrigued by their Core requirements...
With this core group of competitors returning next season, the Crimson transforms from one of the youngest teams to one of the most experienced. And with its hold on the Ivies made triply secure, Harvard is now trying to get to the next level—beating Trinity and reclaiming the national championship that it last held three years...