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...percent literacy rate remains an alluring investment opportunity for U.S. business, even if the pace of reforming its archaic communist economy has been slow. Vietnam's communist leaders want U.S. investment more than ever, now that the early promise of turning the country into a new "Asian Tiger" economy has faded somewhat in a mire of bureaucratic red tape. Foreign investment, which amounted to more than $8 billion a year, or one third of the country's GNP, in the mid-'90s, has slowed recently, and a trade agreement signed with the U.S. in July is a sign of Hanoi...
...prove it. For starters, Long-Term Capital's spectacular demise in 1998 pointed to trouble for globetrotting hedge-fund hotshots. Soros and Tiger Management's Julian Robertson both ran aground this year. Indeed, the average hedge fund has been underperforming the S&P 500 for four years. The hedgies, it seems, make investing a lot tougher than it needs...
About 10 minutes later, Columbia senior forward Tiger Fitzpatrick added to the score by taking a cross in the air and knocking it home...
...reliable Tiger scorer is junior forward Andrea Kilbourne (18 g, 20 a), who is deadly on the breakaway. Kilbourne's talent was held somewhat in check last year only because opposing teams were able to key in on her defensively, which means she will need sophomore forward Nikola Holmes (13 g, 13 a), Annamarie's sister, to prove herself as a legitimate scoring threat...
Princeton Coach Jeff Kampersal expects the Tiger offense to be deeper this season with the addition of rookies Lisa Rasmussen, Gretchen Anderson and Susan Hobson...