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...that people of different nationalities can work as a team and achieve great results." If Alinghi wins the Cup, it could stage the next event in Italy, France or Spain - anywhere with the right winds and the proper facilities, says team executive director Michel Bonnefous. The real prize at stake is the right to host the next regatta in home waters (or wherever the successful team chooses to call home). And that means money. For New Zealand, pop. 3.9 million, the staging of the 2000 Cup delivered a $700 million economic boost and the revitalization of Auckland's harbor precinct...
...Swissair agrees to increase its Sabena stake...
Carrying out full and frank discussions of the vital issues currently at stake in the political arena seems less important for either HCD or their counterparts, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), than participating in partisan scrapping to win next month’s elections. As the Bush Administration pilots the country inexorably—and inexplicably—towards a war in Iraq that will squander both international goodwill and American lives, it might seem reasonable to expect HCD to have a coherent policy on the conflict. Apparently...
...mean to imply, by any means, that the issue of legacy advantage is a simple or black-and-white one. Whether or not it is “fair” or “right,” Harvard does have an important financial stake in admitting legacy students; alumni are more apt to give money when they think that their children have a bit of an edge in the admissions game, and it is this very money that, to take one example, enables the college to have a need-blind financial aid system...
...week ago the human world champion was bulldozing the computer, but now Deep Fritz, after today's victory, has evened the score at three points apiece. There are two games left and $1-million is at stake - not to mention the restoration of human dignity. Vladimir Kramnik's fellow grand masters hope that he will win the competition and avenge the loss of the previous world champion, Garry Kasparov, to an IBM supercomputer five years ago. "If he wins, we'll have something to be proud of again," said Alexander Baburin, editor of the Internet chess daily www.chesstoday.net...