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...goal to win the points trophy at Eastern Sprints in the spring,” Cartwright said.The crew looks to build off of the success of last year and to feed off of the success of its new coach.She coached the lightweight varsity crews of the University of Western Ontario while still attending the university, but her most recent experience was on the heavyweight side. She served as an assistant coach at Princeton until the 2004 season, when she moved to be an assistant at Boston University. At the 2006 Eastern Sprints, she led the Terriers’ varsity four...
...tacit admission of the state capitalists' success, Western leaders are copying their tactics. After blasting Moscow for forcing its petroleum industry into state hands, Western European states are rushing to nationalize their biggest banks. After America criticized China for using state loans to support its leading companies, the Federal Reserve has started handing out loans to critical U.S. companies...
Businesses, homegrown and foreign alike, also face several problems that are unique to Saudi Arabia. The quality of the local workforce is poor, owing to an education system that has long placed religious studies above science and math (unlike that of the lites, who are often Western-educated). Reforms are under way, but it will be years before Saudi universities are churning out world-class engineers in the numbers the country needs. Nor can businesses expect to simply import employees, which has long been the norm in the Persian Gulf economies: mindful of that youth bulge, Riyadh is imposing...
Most of the world's future economic growth will take place in developing nations, and our growth--and Western Europe's and Japan's--will largely be based on theirs. Do we understand these economies? And are we ready to compete for the business of the billions who live there and are just now starting to move up from poverty to life as consumers--consumers who would love to buy U.S. products because of their quality...
...most jaded political hands should find troubling: many of them, quite simply, are racists.Rep. John Murtha, a sixteen-term Congressman from Pittsburgh, acknowledged this reality on Wednesday with a bluntness that a less secure incumbent could never have dared. “There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area,” he said. I am afraid that in small towns on the Jersey border, there is no question, either.The racism that defines these swing voters is not necessarily founded upon stereotype or prejudice. It’s not the kind that claims that black kids...