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There you are, Mike Tyson. You know you’re the world champ, that you get paid to bust heads for a living. And you know that heavyweight Mitch “Blood” Green is across from you. What do you do? You fight, right? It seems natural. So you knock the man out. Only when it’s over do you realize that it’s 4 a.m. and you’re on a Harlem street corner, not in the ring?...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Mike Tyson's Memento | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...That may be why Skilling hired him in 1990 from Continental Illinois, a Chicago thrift that failed in the mid-'80s savings-and-loan bust. Fastow had a skill Skilling needed; he did asset "securitization," a means for banks to sell off risk in the form of securities backed by mortgages or other obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fastow Helped Enron Fall | 2/10/2002 | See Source »

...tough question,” Idziak says. “Is the point of a high GPA just so you can get a job? I don’t even know what employers think a high GPA means. I think it just means you’re willing to bust your ass countless hours a week and you know you’ve got to hate some of the stuff you do. If I don’t like the class I don’t really try that hard...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peter B. Idziak | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

...kidnapped by the state and forced to become soldiers. And, according to the International Labor Organization, at least 1 million children are prostitutes, with the greatest numbers in Thailand, India, Taiwan and the Philippines. It's a growing problem, fueled by the Asian economic boom and the subsequent bust, which has fostered an increasingly yawning gap between rich and poor, countryside and city, isolated hinterlands and wealthy coasts. On the continent, alongside the millionaires of Bangkok and Hong Kong, live two-thirds of the world's extreme poor - 790 million people earning less than $1 a day. In the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shame | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...expressed intentions. Important though it is, the administration’s latest decision falls far short of eliminating poverty on campus, now or in the future. Harvard will continue to negotiate wages that put families below the federal poverty line, and it reserves the right to engage in union-busting tactics in order to keep wages down. Summers has also refused to make benefits more affordable. Until he does, service workers, whose jobs put them at considerably greater physical risk than those of professors, will continue to have less access to health care and sick days. Most importantly, Harvard?...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, MADELEINE S. ELFENBEIN | Title: Still Waiting on A Fair Deal | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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