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...know, ‘If you want to do this you have to really want it and enough to sacrifice other things.’” TEACHING YOU TO TEACH YOURSELF For James F. Collins ’07, currently filming a documentary in South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, the experience of being a VES concentrator was similarly eye-opening. A lifelong involvement with music and interest in photography paved the road for filmmaking. Collins says he learned all of his necessary skills and technique during his time in VES. “It was great...
...hold no special regard for the yellow metal. In less than 10 years, the Hungarian- born magnate's Barrick Gold has emerged as the world's third largest gold producer. With a pending deal to develop the $20 billion Busang deposit in Indonesia, Barrick may even outstrip South Africa's Anglo American for the No. 1 spot. Yet, says Munk, he is no gold bug. "For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit," he conceded recently from his corporate headquarters in Toronto. "But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes...
...succumb to U.S. and Japanese competition. Munk then built a chain of resorts in Fiji, called Southern Pacific Hotel Corp., and next dabbled in oil and gas, but lost heavily when energy prices collapsed in 1982. Munk turned to gold, he says, only when political unrest in South Africa during the 1980s presented what he saw as an irresistible opportunity. Hunting for safe neighborhoods to mine, he settled on the northern Nevada desert and set about convincing investors that this was the time to gamble on North American gold. Those who believed him were soon rewarded. Goldstrike mine, near...
...struggle for freedom in South Africa was a difficult one,” he said. “But it was finally overcome...
Julia I. Bertelsmann ’09, an economics concentrator and native of Cape Town, South Africa, said she was impressed by the discussion...