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...Russia has always been a risky place to do business, but that hasn't prevented a huge flow of international investments into the economy this decade. The question now is whether the country's latest bout of economic instability will frighten away, possibly for years to come, the foreign capital the country needs to thrive. No, answers Marc Lhermitte, a partner at Ernst & Young, which in September published a survey of the attractiveness of leading cities. Moscow scored high on the list; Chinese investors ranked the Russian capital just behind Paris, for example. Despite all the recent economic and geopolitical...
...sketches out a workplace dalliance—the video definitely speaks to a bit of sexual harrassment—between himself and a sexily self-actuated co-worker. “She work like the boss / Play like the boss / Car and a crib / She bout to pay ’em both off.” Ne-Yo’s you-go-girl rhetoric sounds patronizing, especially given the womanizing tone his previous albums took, but it permeates the whole album. Maybe he’s genuinely turned on by the fact that his boss has a financial...
...Board, GSC Committees, and University committees, ranging from the Harvard College Safety Committee to the FAS Library Committee. But the energy in the room was lukewarm, dampened by the thick smell of pineapple pizza. “You just all elected Sarah,” Brown said after another bout of silence in response to a proposed candidate. “See how easy that worked!” Harvard Law School student Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a former member of the College’s very own Undergraduate Council, spoke briefly to recruit Graduate Student Council...
...President's Working Group on Financial Markets, and although we weren't predicting this, we certainly knew we were bound to have stress and turmoil in the capital markets. It had been a long time, you have to go back to '98 since we'd had the last serious bout, and so we've worked very closely together for over two years now. And we work very well...
...those later.) This lack of fear became a hothouse of greed and ignorance on Wall Street - and on Main Street as well. When greed exceeds fear, trouble follows. Wall Street has always been a greedy place and every decade or so it suffers a blow resulting in a bout of hand-wringing and regret, which always seems to be quickly forgotten...