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BERN: The Swiss government agreed to manage a fund started by the country's three largest banks to compensate Holocaust victims. The banks had announced last week that they would put $71 million of seed money into an account at the Swiss National Bank, but said that they expected the government to manage the reparations fund and contribute to it. Swiss Foreign Minister Flavio Cotti said the account would be established within a week, and would be followed by discussions with business and Jewish organizations on how to disburse the money. The government won't decide on whether to contribute...
However, Kalnakis says students tend to take the reputation of a school more into account than the school itself...
...monetary woes as an occasion for solidarity: "It was like being outnumbered and under fire again, but by golly we were there," he says. This outlook was shaken in March 1995, when, in the course of his work, he encountered what seemed to him to be a New Zealand account bearing nearly $900,000. Travis was "extremely insulted" to discover the extra cash at a time when the organization was crying poor. After the O'Hairs' vanishing act, he took his story (and the New Zealand account number) to the IRS and the newspapers, at least one of which suggested...
...money, they said, was simply the group's "trust fund," from whose interest American Atheists might one day be expected to pay operating expenses. Tyson told TIME the notion that the Murray-O'Hairs had taken it with them into hiding was "absurd. We know where every bank account is. Every penny is accounted for." By last December, however, the tune had changed: 1995 tax forms for the United Secularists of America, one of American Atheists' affiliated groups, stated, "The $612,000 shown as a decease [sic] in net assets...represents the value of the United Secularists of America...
Instead, Seabrook (a New Yorker writer and scion of the Seabrook frozen-food family) keeps his feet firmly planted in a very personal and often very funny account of his own assimilation into the culture of the Net. Sure, his head may spin a bit as he makes his initial encounters--his first E-mail exchange finds him in surprisingly casual conversation with Bill Gates; he samples the mysteries of cybersex disguised as a half-woman, half-faun named Bambi. But a little head spinning is to be expected at first, and Seabrook is never more on target than when...