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...When he returned to Cornell, Wordsworth had suddenly lost its appeal. "I wanted to be involved," Zhu recalls. "I wanted to do something more useful than studying poetry written by a dead person." He took a leave from the doctorate program?never to return?shifted into law school and in 1995 joined Morgan Stanley as an investment banker. Since then, Zhu, 42, has made himself very, very useful to the Chinese economy. Morgan Stanley has raised $20 billion for Chinese companies, mainly through initial public offerings of stock, and Zhu has been involved in nearly all of them, including mobile...
...Back in the Czech Republic, florists Kodytek and Lenc are nursing their wounds. Lenc is still fuming over a six-page letter from the Austrian Labor Ministry explaining why it is refusing his request for a florist's license - and informing him that he can appeal the decision for a fee of ?180. The mayor of Gmünd, Otto Opelka, who says his town is keen for new business blood, blames teething troubles; this was the first time a Czech firm had opened in the area. "In the future, things will run more smoothly," he says. "I think...
...culture," says Fabrizio Tonello, a political science professor at the University of Padua. "If people are interested in a small party, they vote for it no matter what its strength. The result is big coalitions that are extremely fragmented inside." Mussolini ended her five-day hunger strike when her appeal for a place on next month's ballot was rejected. But she vowed to fight on, preferably alone. "I want to stay out of any coalition," she said. "We will continue to create a short circuit for everyone in this bipolar system." The Prime Minister is still likely to court...
When he returned to Cornell, Wordsworth had suddenly lost its appeal. "I wanted to be involved," Zhu recalls. "I wanted to do something more useful than studying poetry written by a dead person." He took a leave from the doctorate program--never to return--shifted into law school and in 1995 joined Morgan Stanley as an investment banker. Since then, Zhu, 42, has made himself very, very useful to the Chinese economy. Morgan Stanley has raised $20 billion for Chinese companies, mainly through initial public offerings of stock, and Zhu has been involved in nearly all of them, including mobile...
...drug use. Liberals get more concerned about violence and degradation of women. The right sees the machinations of amoral Hollywood. The left sees soulless megabusinesses dropping their standards to court the coveted 18- to 34-year-old male demographic. "Obviously, you have an incentive to program material that will appeal directly to that market," says Michael Copps, a Democratic FCC commissioner, who argues that the rise of indecency and megamergers are related. "This whole issue of media consolidation goes not only to the quality of entertainment that we get but the very core of civic dialogue and the collective decisions...