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...software for online casinos. Skype has 250 people in Estonia and reckons it will have exhausted the local job market once it gets up to 350. Thanks to its hip reputation - and the package of eBay options offered to staff - it has managed to lure about 50 people from abroad. But other firms have a tougher time following suit. Allan Martinson, who ran an IT firm and has now set up shop as a venture capitalist, reckons that Estonia's true innovative edge has more to do with the willingness of the public to use technology than with any particular...
...This year, there are 484 students residing in the Hyatt and 120 shacking up in the Holiday Inn, according to the Daily Free Press, Boston University’s student newspaper. In the second semester, however, the hotel occupants will be squeezed into the dorms vacated by upperclassmen studying abroad. Although the BU students in hotels live farther from campus than other freshmen, they are compensated for the inconvenience with bi-weekly maid service, private bathrooms, and access to an indoor pool. And while the hotels’ luxurious double beds have been replaced with standard dorm issue furniture...
...early Python work back in the 70s was a liberating experience for American comedy connoisseurs. Part of the kick was that Flying Circus wasn't made for us. Unlike the Beatles' music, it wasn't meant to sound like our stuff. Either the Pythons never thought to appeal abroad or they just didn't care; they were writing and performing for themselves. The show, with its sly mix of highbrow and no-brow humor, of university wit and pratfalling physicality, must have seemed strange enough to U.K. viewers. But for Americans there were extra layers of mystification...
...returned to Thailand. Thailand is currently under martial law but Sonthi has promised to hand over power to a democratic government by next Tuesday. According to the Office of International Programs, there are no Harvard undergraduates currently studying in Thailand, and no students are scheduled for study abroad in Thailand this spring. Nonetheless, the coup in Thailand has affected some within the Harvard community, including international students from Thailand. Pimkwan Jaru-ampornpan ’07 said she has contacted her family everyday, and that for her family, “nothing is different in daily activities. [Last] Wednesday...
...draw for visitors. A high-speed Internet connection simplified paying bills, e-mailing friends and maintaining the monthly investment e-newsletter Plumb had started writing after retiring as a managing director of a financial-advisory firm. "It was like living a dream," says Plumb. "We finally got our semester abroad...