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...Global Gender Gap Report, an annual index created by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, tracks how equitably nations allocate their resources to men and women and creates a benchmark for “national gender gaps on economic, political, education- and health-based criteria...
...freshman Annie DeAngelo, and sophomore Quincy Bock served as crews. Brown was the overall runner-up, finishing the weekend 15-4. Both the co-ed and the women’s teams will compete at ACCs this weekend. The co-eds will sail at Hobart and William Smith in Geneva, N.Y., and the women will travel to Georgetown in Washington, D.C. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...Deemed "enemy combatants" by the U.S. Government, the hundreds of detainees currently being held in Gitmo (as the base is known) were considered ineligible for the normal legal process that U.S. prisoners are entitled to, and unprotected by the prisoner of war statutes of the Geneva Convention by virtue of being alleged combatants of a "foreign terrorist group" rather than belonging to a standing foreign army. President Bush's passage of the Military Commissions Act in 2006 authorized the use of military tribunals in place of federal courts to try the detainees, and justified the use of some forms...
...Canada withstood the subprime tornado better than other countries, and should the Canadian banking system be a model for G-7 and G-20 leaders when they gather in Washington on Nov. 15? Consider that the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, an influential think tank whose annual conference attracts the likes of Bill Gates and Tony Blair, earlier this month ranked Canada's banking system as the soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher...
...wants a team to be able to compete on a budget much closer to its share of those rights. That averaged around $40 million for each team this year. In a meeting with the FIA in Geneva last month, teams agreed to a number of measures aimed at reducing expenditure starting in 2009. The cost of engines supplied to independent teams by manufacturers was reduced from around $20 million to $13 million, and teams will save money by changing engines every three races, rather than every two. More talks on lowering the cost of chassis development - which...