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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saudi Arabian Prince Amr Bin Mohamed Al Faisal Al Saud described the investment process: "We go through a primary specification before we enter anything where-by we ask the question, 'Is this permissible or not?' If it is permissible, then we go through the assessment that any bank would...
What is needed is a wholesale change in the way papers are approached in Harvard classes. Rather than writing for a TF, we should be writing for ourselves. Rather than regurgitating information, we should be challenging and contesting ideas. Rather than putting our graded papers in the recycling bin, we should be proud of and academically invested in our own work long after final grades are submitted...
...JOSE: Oracle chairman Larry Ellison has dropped plans to buy Apple. The billionaire businessman began forming an investment group a month ago to consider an exploratory bid for the company while trying to scare away other potential suitors such as Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, a nephew of King Fahd who had begun buying up Apple shares. Apple stock finished down 11/16 on the news to close at $17. Industry insiders said Ellison's success in turning Oracle into a $4 billion software powerhouse, whose chief customers were corporations, would not translate to reviving Apple, whose shrinking band...
...likelihood of tragedies. In 1994, 207 Indonesian pilgrims were killed in a stampede as worshippers surged toward a cavern for the symbolic ritual of "stoning the devil," while in 1990, 1,426 people died during a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel that leads from Mecca to Mina. Although Mohammed bin Al-Suhaily, director-general of the Saudi defense agency, said that 181 pilgrims are dead and 800 injured, witnesses placed the number of dead at more than 300. The official number may well rise as the rescue continues...
...take advantage of your new digital TV, so expect to shell out $500 or so for one of those. Then again, by the time that analog signs off the airwaves, DVD and DVD-R discs will have put the VCR next to the eight-track on the dust bin of tech history, so that's not much of a problem...