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...fight is becoming more intense: just last week U.S. Airways, which recently emerged from bankruptcy, struck a $4.3 billion deal to buy 170 regional jets, splitting the order evenly between Bombardier and Embraer. It was a sure sign that Embraer can fly as high as its competitor - a point driven home at the São Paulo show as Embraer opened a new front in the battle, flaunting its first executive jet, the attractively priced $20 million Legacy. "There is really no competition" between the Legacy and Bombardier's business fleet, sniffed Bombardier spokesman Leo Knappen. "We have a whole...
...enemy programmed to hate and fear is not the adversary the U.S. wants to face across the bargaining table. But assuming that Kim is driven primarily by a desire to stay in power, he might realize his nuclear plan has a fundamental flaw. Using or threatening to use the bomb will almost certainly spell the end of his regime, no matter the cost. Logic should be telling him that the only sure way he can survive is by giving up his nukes, in return getting much-needed aid and living to be obnoxious another...
...Bedford crowd is not alone in its enchantment with the cosmos. In recent years an odd sort of celestial rapture has spread across the country. Whether it's driven by a longing for a larger world, for post-9/11 meaning or simply for the pleasure of a silent field beneath a riotous sky, more and more Americans are falling in love with the heavens. There's Erica Block, 15, of Lincoln, Neb., who sold her horse and emptied her bank account to buy a $1,000 telescope that, she boasts, is taller than she is. There's Evan Chan...
...Kashmiris themselves, violence has divided and scattered what was once a close-knit Himalayan community. In their giddier moments, Muslim Kashmiris dreamed that a magic wand would, with one swish, eliminate both India and Pakistan from their lives, permitting them to create an independent state. Hindu Kashmiris, meanwhile, driven from the Muslim-majority valley by terrorism, wished for a Hindu homeland. However, though Kashmiris might be unfortunate, or romantic, they are not fools. They now realize that independence will not suddenly become an option today. Instead, they, along with the Indians and Pakistanis, should seek to effectively end the partition...
Susannah K. Graves ’03, another Cabot IM coordinator, said she feels that this year’s Adams teams were not as driven as they were last year, when Adams won its first Straus Cup since the inception of the IM system 68 years...