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...images - but probably no more than what's needed to counteract a small but vocal group who take issue with the census not because it asks those personal questions about indoor plumbing but because it dares go where few American institutions have the chutzpah to go. Fierce resistance has risen from various populations regarding the census's questions about race - always a prickly issue in America - now framed in a manner that highlights our particularly schizophrenic attitudes about skin color...
...definitively that [HCD] is the strongest group of Democrats in the state, and possibly in the country. It has risen beyond its historical tendencies," he said...
...Bangladesh's literacy rate has risen to 60 percent since she took office, she said, and the enrollment of girls in school has also increased considerably...
...newly released Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings came out that day. Harvard, which in the past month dropped from a top-25 team to No. 66, was not even listed in the new rankings of approximately the top 75 teams. Its next opponent, California, had risen to No. 35 in the ITA polls...
Last week the rules snapped back with a vengeance when MicroStrategy, a supercharged Vienna, Va., software and Internet company, was forced to restate drastically results it reported in 1998 and 1999. MicroStrategy's stock, which had risen like Icarus--from $7.34 to $333 over the past 12 months--suddenly fell from the sky, losing more than 60% of its value in a single day. More than $11 billion in market value was erased, and the company's brash chairman, Michael Saylor, 35, personally lost $6 billion in paper wealth in less time than it takes to say overvalued dotcom. "There...