But the board-selection committee wanted to separate the new company from the troubles of the past, these people said.

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Scott Gration, Barack Obama's energetic new special envoy to Sudan, believes that the best chance of peace for this divided country remains the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 between the Islamist government in Khartoum, in the north of the country, and the former rebels of south Sudan, who are quite separate from the Darfuris, and had been fighting their northern masters for most of the past half-century.

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In separate announcements, both schools announced major curriculum changes, indicating that the loud noise from the past years, including the blame the MBA community continues to receive for the Wall Street crisis, seems to have been heard.

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The business became a separate holding company in March, when AIG, still reeling from its past accounting improprieties, christened it AIU Holdings.

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