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...million project is only part of a flurry of telecom activity on the continent. Amid a push by Africa's leaders and telcos to modernize its networks over the next few years, a string of firms have partnered to build the East African Submarine Cable System, some 10,000 km of fiber-optic lines linking 21 countries from South Africa to Sudan. With work on the line started last year, the project is due for completion in 2009. The World Bank's $424 million Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Program - a complementary scheme approved at roughly the same time - aims...
...adorn the portrait with personal messages. Lehman employees were offered green markers; non-affiliated onlookers got black ones. Some scrawled angry missives: "The banks are next"; "A symbol of greed and arrogance." Others were weirdly aphoristic: "Greed and ego it was"; "Learn to respect the dollar." Even amid the turmoil, some even mustered a bit of a gallows humor: "Hakuna Matata (It Means No Worries)." Raymond - who began work on the painting about 10 days ago - said he expected to collect some 300 signatures, and hoped to auction the final work on his website for more than...
...Harvard has been revamping its fundraising operations to emphasize cross-school gifts and support less wealthy schools such as the Harvard School of Public Health and the Divinity School. The shift has at times ruffled feathers at wealthier schools like the FAS amid concern the new priorities may lower their school’s take...
...decided to enroll in an 18-month training program to fly Sea King rescue helicopters. The announcement follows news that he would not be allowed to serve in Afghanistan after his younger brother Harry was abruptly withdrawn from the front lines in the dangerous Helmand province in February amid concerns for his safety...
...specialist based in Los Angeles. During his 22-month tenure, El-Erian was tasked with bringing stability to an organization that had been rocked by the 2005 departure of its long-time CEO Jack R. Meyer, who left with a quarter of the management company’s staff amid heated criticism over multimillion dollar compensation packages for him and his top managers. Meyer and several of his former lieutenants now run the Boston-based hedge fund Convexity Capital Management. Robert S. Kaplan, a former vice chairman at Goldman Sachs and a professor at Harvard Business School, served as interim...