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...courts in free fall, it was protection rackets that guaranteed that contracts entered into by the new entrepreneurs of Eastern Europe would be honored. "If it wasn't for the mafia in Russia and elsewhere in the early 1990s, nothing would have moved, nothing would have happened," said Gary Busch, an American businessman who worked in Russia during the turbulent 1990s. "They were essential for the free market." The gangs of Sofia, Moscow and Prague were the midwives of capitalism. In Russia, the new entrepreneurs - or oligarchs, as they were called - could use their guile to seize control of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gangsterism | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...when I was cutting the grass,” he says. “I think I was 13. It made me feel really cool. It made me feel more like my dad.”Eisele grew up in a German family in the hometown of the Anheuser-Busch companies in St. Louis, MO.He says his first taste of “good beer”—a Harpoon IPA—did not come until college. He further developed an appreciation for the beverage during his sophomore year abroad in Australia.As an injured football recruit...

Author: By Laura C. Mckiernan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Brews Unique Education | 4/22/2008 | See Source »

Despite its lime-green background, “A Taste of Power: 18th Century German Porcelain for the Table” is easy to miss at first among the many other works of art currently on view at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibition, which runs through June 30, is surprisingly small, consisting of four cases housing a total of only five porcelain figurines. However, what the pieces lack in size, they make up for in beauty. Each precious inch of the figurines is carefully painted and lined with a surprising amount of detail. Their life-like, agile representations...

Author: By Tiffany Chi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Porcelain Puts Power on the Table | 4/17/2008 | See Source »

...Investors this year have asked for so-called "say on pay" at some 100 companies, including Coca-Cola, IBM, General Motors, Exxon Mobil, Citigroup, Anheuser-Busch, General Electric and Wal-Mart. As companies hold their annual meetings throughout April and May, some 70 different institutional investors will be pushing to add an annual provision to let shareholders vote up or down on how companies pay their top five executives. Earlier this week, about 150 institutional investors and representatives from companies like Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, Dell, BP, Sara Lee, Fed Ex, Procter & Gamble and United Health gathered in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Giving Investors a Say on CEO Pay | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...founder and former president of OUR HUAM. “Events like Night At The Fogg provided the reason. They realized that it wasn’t an intimidating place...and they continued to come,” Spies-Gans said. The Fogg and the attached Busch-Reisinger Museum will be closing on June 30 for the next four years. However, despite early worries about access to the Harvard collections, HUAM Coordinator of Public Education Lynne A. Stanton said that the Fogg’s closing would not have a large negative impact. “Art works aren?...

Author: By Seongmin Lee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Night of Farewell at the Fogg | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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