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...After graduating magna cum laude, Page says he served as the Annenberg Fellow at Eton College, an elite British preparatory school, for a year before returning to Boston to work at a small start-up investment bank called America’s Growth Capital. It was then Page says he experienced a strong pull to the ministry...
...Page left the bank and applied to Yale Divinity School. That year, he says, he wrote a draft of a book about Eton and tutored high school students. To supplement his income, he says he also worked as a security guard in East Somerville and as a liquor salesman, selling vodka to bars and liquor stores in Boston...
...thought to have spirited away to Liechtenstein, beyond the reach of Germany's tax authorities - but not, it turns out, of its spies. Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, paid as much as $7 million to a former employee of a trust controlled by the LGT Group, a bank owned by the principality's royal family. In return, the BND received stolen computer discs containing names of people with funds in Liechtenstein. The U.S. and U.K. have made their own deals, and Germany has offered its information to other interested governments...
...many cultural and social events, provides a place for international students to connect—even if you are the only student from your country. HIO for its part assists with the more mundane challenges that internationals face in Cambridge. According to Dlamini, the HIO also helps students open bank accounts, pay taxes, and obtain passports. “They do a very good job of taking care of you here,” Dlamini says. Residential life also fosters a strong sense of belonging outside the international community. “It’s freaking cold in Cambridge...
Mindful that the worst may be yet to come, the State Bank of Pakistan is ratcheting up interest rates, though it still expects inflation "to remain high" through the rest of 2008. That won't impress vegetable vendor Faiz Mohamed, 50, who says that Pakistan's economic success in the past few years has benefited only the elite. "A particular class has earned a lot from the investment, the new [cell] phones, all that," he says, from behind his worn metal scales. But, he says, "the poor man has become poorer...