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...tens of millions of dollars. Last year, when the Asian markets were sagging, he was thought to have made $20 million to $36 million for Barings. Just a couple of weeks before the bank's collapse, he boasted to friends that he had been promised a $2 million bonus for the work, in addition to his $350,000 salary, company-financed apartment and limitless travel budget. In Singapore he developed a following. Says one trader: "When all the charts said sell, he would push the market even higher and the locals would go with him." His immediate boss in Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicholas Leeson: GOING FOR BROKE | 3/13/1995 | See Source »

...Quad is new and spacious and not kind of old and scary like the River houses," said Chris J. Nicholson '97, an advocate of Cabot House's new public access FAX and other "friendly and expansive" facilities. "We're close to the Q-RAC; that's a super-bonus...and we have tennis courts...

Author: By Meredith K. Broussard, | Title: Quadward, Ho ! | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...public message on a bulletin board and at the bottom sign my name, encoded with my private key. You can then decode my signature using my public key and be confident that it was indeed me who posted the message. This kind of "message authenticity" is a powerful bonus of public-key encryption...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: ON TECHNOLOGY | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

Dress to impress; somebody does care what comes between you and your Calvins. Yes, that nasty old underwear and ripped t-shirt will see you through the end of the laundry cycle, but they will not win you any bonus points in the romance department...

Author: By Jeremy D. Fiebert, | Title: Le Big Mack | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...Hong Kong. For Chan there's no place like home. "In Asia I'm kind of like E.T.," he says. "Everybody comes to see my films. There are billions of people in Asia, and they're my first audience. If I get an American audience, O.K., that's a bonus. If not, that's O.K. too. I'm very happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACKIE CAN! | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

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