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Aspiring Harvard undergrad Stephanie Bianchi had no idea when she left the calm shores of Put-in-Bay, Ohio—population 128—to visit Harvard that she would land in the middle of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ historic resignation...
...Randy Bianchi is a firm believer that in America, "a person should be allowed to buy a second, third or fourth home if he or she wants." That goes for real estate investors and speculators, even those who "flip" homes-that is, people who buy a house or condominium for the sole purpose of quickly selling it off for a profit, usually before construction is completed and often without even taking title to it. But Bianchi, a real estate broker and co-owner of Paradise Properties in West Palm Beach, Fla., who says he may soon flip a luxury condo...
...investigators say, Parmalat borrowed money from global banks and justified those loans by inflating its revenues through fictitious sales to retailers. In a scheme that authorities charge was devised and executed by Tanzi, top managers, the firm's outside lawyer, Gian Paolo Zini, and two outside auditors, Maurizio Bianchi and Lorenzo Penca, it would then cook its books some more to make the debt vanish, by transferring it to shell companies based in offshore tax havens. (Zini, Bianchi and Penca deny any wrongdoing.) When the hole grew too large to hide, Tanzi, Tonna and the two auditors allegedly came...
...walking in the opposite direction. Maybe they aren’t even real soldiers, or maybe they’re off duty—they seem very relaxed. One of them warns me to look out—I have wandered into the bike lane, and a Bianchi is about to slam into me. I jump out of the way and thank the men. There they go, the real heroes, at it again...
...understand what happened," Argentine captain Juan Sebastian Veron told journalists as he and other players caught a train to Tokyo, where their families awaited them. "It still hasn't sunk in." Perhaps he and his mates might consider the advice of another former Argentine national coach: Carlos Bianchi warned against too much head-scratching over last week's events. "It makes no sense to search for explanations where you won't find them," he told the sports daily Ol?. "This is what the game is all about: you win, you draw or you lose." And that, he might have added...