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...complete list of finalists for Class Marshal is: Christina L. Adams ’06, Hana R. Alberts ’06, Vasco S. Bilbao-Bastida ’06, Gustavo A. Cardenas ’06, Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, Theodore “Teddy” E. Chestnut ’06, Lindsey E. Gary ’06, Kristi L. Jobson ’06, Evan R. Johnson ’06, John “Jack” P. McCambridge ’06, Neil K. Mehta ’06, Tracy...
...world. As shipping moved from downtown wharves to purpose-built container ports, old cities discovered that their weedy waterfronts could be reworked into the sort of environments that would attract?and retain?both tourist dollars and the creative minds that give a place fizz. From Boston to Bilbao, from Singapore to Sydney?even, for heaven's sake, in Liverpool, the ultimate rusted-up port?city planners have remade harbors into lively, people-friendly places full of restaurants, design studios and cultural attractions. "Waterfronts are now cherished assets," says Marshall. According to a study by the Boston Foundation, the $21 billion...
...Raid Italian banks are suddenly under assault from European rivals. ABN Amro of the Netherlands is expected to announce a bid for Banca Antoniana Popolare Veneta, Italy's ninth-largest bank, as early as this week. That follows this month's €6.5 billion bid by Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria for the 85% of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro it doesn't already own. The moves amount to an earthquake for Italian banks, which are all firmly in Italian hands and have until now been able to count on the Bank of Italy to protect them from foreign takeovers...
...become "the Spanish Tony Blair," a reference to the British PM's efforts to secure a Northern Ireland peace deal. Zapatero said he was willing to listen to Batasuna, but only once "the noise of guns and bombs comes to an end." And then boom - first in Gexto near Bilbao on Jan. 18, then in a hotel near Alicante on Jan. 30, then last week. "It looks as if ETA is impeding Batasuna's political moves," says Patxi Zabaleta, leader of Basque nationalist group Aralar and a former defense lawyer for ETA prisoners. But Batasuna refuses to criticize its armed...
...referendum, though only once the separatist terrorist group ETA declares a cease-fire. "If there are no negotiations," he says, "I'll consult the Basque people." That move could backfire, if it ever even happens. Separatist sentiment was on display when thousands marched on Jan. 8 in Bilbao, but a poll last week showed Basques oppose the Ibarretxe Plan by a thin margin of 36%-34%. Many residents have close ties to Spain, and most don't speak Basque. A majority of 59%, however, thinks the government should allow a referendum to go ahead. Before it comes to that...