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...differs sharply from its predecessor, the General Education (Gen Ed) system introduced...
...company has cash but it all goes to banks," says retired engineer Guy Ducreux, a 14-year Eurotunnel shareholder who supports the corporate coup. "The new board is a financial dream team." It had better be, if it's going to do what its predecessor could not: reduce Eurotunnel's crushing debt and its crippling costs, boost revenues and send its long-grounded stock price soaring. So far, that hasn't happened - the stock dropped over 13% to 52? on the day after the coup. Fabrice Rémon, partner of the Deminor consultancy that advises minority shareholding groups, warns...
...nation again sits idle in the face of yet another African genocide, as a campaign of whole scale ethnic cleansing racks the troubled nation of Sudan. The crisis demands strong leadership and urgent action. Will President Bush rise to the challenge, or will he repeat the sins of his predecessor...
...missile defense ... [Vladimir] Putin was relatively new to the business, as was the President, and getting that relationship off to a good start was an important piece of business. China surfaced front and center early on ... You don't want to just walk in and just buy everything your predecessor left you ... You also have an obligation to get everybody to sit down and look at the key areas and ... decide we're going to continue down this path or we're going to make some fundamental changes...
...with the most harrowing historical multiplayer game yet created. Playing it feels like wandering onto the set of a chaotic Vietnam movie. The ambiance is pitch-perfect; EA licensed original period antiwar hits like Fortunate Son so the tunes could blare ironically across the jungle. As in its predecessor, Battlefield 1942, players compete with strangers over the Internet on an intricate 3-D map (representing the Ho Chi Minh Trail, say, or the city of Hue). Your aim is to capture as many flags and annihilate as many opponents as possible. But in this game, jungle-shrouded snipers are among...