he president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here Sunday encouraged
the journalists to take into view all weaknesses and points of strength
while analyzing the current developments and place special focus on being precise.

Addressing domestic and foreign reporters, the former mayor of the capital city
of Tehran added that during his term in Tehran Municipality, for the first time, the
mass media which had ventured to criticize the administration in charge were supported
and praised.

In response to a question raised by the reporter of the Persian language Qods morning
daily about the concern of investors over the country's future economic situation, he
regretted that during the electoral campaign some media had partially transgressed
the boundary of national interests and have caused worries among certain groups of people.

"One of the major mottos voiced during my electoral campaign, dealt with analysis of the obstacles blocking investment on the national scene.

"We will do our best to lift such obstacles, given the nationwide need for construction and development, which requires proper and healthy investment," he added.

The president-elect announced his full support for stock market, as an investment market,
and stressed that some reforms should be effected in this respect.

"Following the electoral campaign launched for presidential election, the sense of frontiers
were ignored and some ridiculous remarks were voiced on my behalf. The stock market is
an investment tool serving to connect production and investment.

"The public should have access to transparent data associated with stock market and false transactions held behind the curtains should be halted," he added.

In reply to the question posed by the reporter of the Urdu section of BBC radio broadcast
about Iran-Pakistan relations, in particular the recent developments and the country's
nuclear dossier, the president-elect referred to Pakistan as a neighboring, friendly and
brotherly country and said that the two states have been enjoying favorable relations.

Expressing the desire of Iranian nation for the success of the neighboring Pakistan, he
said, "We are determined to continue close cooperation in scientific, political and cultural fields on national, regional and international scenes.

STANFORD, California (AP) - Stanford University's Graduate School
of Business has rejected 41 applicants who tried to access
an admissions Web site earlier this year in hopes
of learning their fate ahead of schedule.


chool officials said the applicants were given the opportunity to explain
why they attempted to gain access to their admissions files before the
date when the university was to tell them if they were admitted.

"At the end of the day, we didn't hear any stories that we thought were
compelling enough to counterbalance the act," said Robert Joss, dean of
the business school.

Admissions sites of at least six schools were accessed by applicants for about
10 hours in early March after a hacker posted instructions in a BusinessWeek
Online forum.
The instructions told people to log onto their admissions Web page and find
their identification numbers in source material that was available on the site.
By plugging those numbers into another Web page address, they were directed
to a page where their admissions decision would be found.

Some applicants saw blank pages and others viewed rejection letters before
access was denied.
Within a week of the incident, Harvard University announced it would reject
119 applicants for following the hacker's instructions and visiting the school's
admissions site. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology followed suit, rejecting 32 applicants.

Stanford had decided not to take action until hearing the applicants' explanations, but
in the end they, too, lost out. The 41 Stanford applicants did not find out their
admissions status at the time, as the university had not posted its decisions
yet, Joss said.
The school admits just 8 percent of those who apply to the business school each year,
so "it's a low probability of getting in anyway," Joss said.