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...School has a three-year-old affiliate in Bangkok, and a Dubai offshoot of Repton will open for business in 2007. Given British schools' success overseas, can a private education by any other name smell as sweet? In Gamagori, Japan, Kaiyo Academy, backed by a group of high-ranking businessmen hoping to revamp Japanese academic standards, has tried to shake off the name minted by the local media, "Eton of Japan." Yet it may be the most Etonian of Japan's many British-inspired schools, since it's the first to require its teachers to board along with its students...
...battle between the FBI and Congress over documents seized in a raid on the office of Congressman William Jefferson, a Democrat from New Orleans, turned Washington upside down last week. The FBI, which has long been investigating allegations that Jefferson accepted money in exchange for helping businessmen secure deals in Africa, says it had already found $90,000 wrapped in foil in the freezer of Jefferson's apartment and had a videotape of him allegedly accepting $100,000 in bribe money. But when federal agents, who had been trying to get documents from Jefferson for nine months, obtained a warrant...
...service is good and that all else is bad; I’ve been guilty of drawing such distinctions myself. But as I prepare to enter the world I would hope to improve, I can’t deny that while the world needs labor organizers, it also needs businessmen who understand that well-paid workers with health care plans are productive workers, just as while the world needs public school teachers, it also needs politicians who will not sell out their constituents at the drop of a hat. The world needs our best, most talented, most caring, and most...
...corner of his Moscow office, perched beneath a painting of a businessman fondling his half-naked secretary, is an open silver attaché case containing wads of U.S. $100 bills in packs of $10,000. It's meant as a joke, poking fun at perceptions of Russian businessmen as big-spending bandits. After the 1998 crisis, Chichvarkin says Euroset's focus was on low prices. But now that Russians have more money, the firm is focusing on branding and store location. Most employees work entirely on a commission basis. One of the biggest challenges for the company, says co-founder...
...fraud in 2003, Chey Tae Won, chairman of oil company SK Corp., returned to his post, fighting off shareholder efforts to remove him. Still, Hahm Sung Deuk, a political economist at Korea University, says the arrest of such a prominent executive will act as a powerful warning to other businessmen: "The owners of companies will realize that this time is different." That may be bad news for Chung, but not for Korea's reputation...