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...skeptical executives that American kids were an audience waiting to happen. It may have helped that Weekly Shonen Jump's Japanese circulation has declined by half, to about 3.4 million, since the mid-1990s, and the company was looking for new markets. Last December, Shueisha bought a 50% stake in Viz Communications, helping to finance the ambitious launch...
...Still, the emotional attachment to free roads cannot be underestimated. Tony Vickers of the Association of British Drivers sees the rights of man at stake. "The truth is, it's not cars that people love. It's their freedom of mobility. I wouldn't give up my freedom of speech or my right to vote, and I'm very, very reluctant to give up my freedom of mobility. Because that's what makes my life what it is." Never mind that he has already lost much of his mobility. (Drivers in central London spend a third of their journeys...
...Keep Green? It takes nerve to pour $6.75 billion into Russia - more than double the total amount of foreign direct investment in the country last year. So the oil industry took notice last week when British Petroleum paid that sum for a 50% stake in oil company TNK, making the biggest purchase of Russian equity ever. But just as BP was showing its faith in Russia, environmental groups were claiming the company had become an apostate to the green causes it once championed. TNK has some notoriously polluted assets, like the Ryazan refinery and the Samotlor field in western Siberia...
Really at stake in this resolution, however, is the proper division of rights, responsibilities and powers between students, universities and local governments. The city government has no right to determine the graduation requirements that a university should impose on its students—save perhaps universities owned and operated by the city itself. There is no place for the city to dictate school policy for the majority of the universities in the Boston area—private and state schools. It is fundamental to academic freedom that universities are able to decide these matters on their...
...magnitude of that series—and how much it matters for the Crimson’s stake to a possible ECAC regular season title and/or NCAA tournament berth—made Monday night’s win all the more important...