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Newstrack: Dubai Ports World plans to divest itself of management at six U.S. ports by transferring them to "a U.S. entity," Sen. John Warner, R-Va., announced. A lawsuit seeking damages from the Marines has been filed in San Francisco on behalf of two high school students who say they were raped by recruiters last year. A gypsy family of "squatters" has been told it has no "human right" to call a British public playing field home. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the situation in Iraq doesn't constitute a civil war and the U.S. goal is to keep that conflict from developing. A California woman, accused of killing her husband, cross-examined her son after he testified she told him daily she would kill his father. The Cherokee Nation's highest court in Oklahoma has ruled the tribe must allow black freedmen to become Cherokee citizens, benefiting some 45,000 people. Australia's New South Wales no longer will require its parliament members to take a loyalty oath to the monarch of their former colonial power Britain. Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry was placed on three years probation Thursday for failing to pay U.S. and district income taxes. A new MetroCard is being designed to spot riders on New York's transportation system who recently handled explosives. An armed ex-supply teacher angry at losing his job took 20 teenaged students and at least two adults hostage Thursday in a school in western France.

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Mathematician may become U-Chi president

CHICAGO, March 9 (UPI) — A presidential search committee is recommending Robert Zimmer, provost of Brown University, become the 13th President of the University of Chicago.

If that recommendation is approved during a special Friday meeting of the school's board of trustees, Zimmer will assume the office July 1, succeeding Don Michael Randel, who has served as the university's president since 2000. Randel will become president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation this summer.

Zimmer is a mathematician who was a faculty member at the University of Chicago for more than two decades before leaving in 2002 to become Brown's provost.

In addition to his teaching and research work in the mathematical fields of geometry, group theory and analysis, Zimmer served as the University of Chicago's mathematics department chairman, deputy provost, and finally, vice president for research at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Zimmer is a specialist in geometry, particularly ergodic theory, Lie groups, and differential geometry.

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Analysis: Jitters over EU Congo mission

By GARETH HARDING
UPI Chief European Correspondent
3/9/2006 9:11:00 AM -0500
The European Union is anxious to become a major player on the world stage, yet seems unwilling to be a serious actor.

Montana looks to coal gasification

By JESSICA CALEFATI
3/9/2006 11:52:00 AM -0500
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is a betting that gasification and liquefaction of coal may be the answer to U.S.

 

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