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Kaus was first exposed to government-sponsored employment when a team of laborers from the Works Progress Administration (WPA)--the federal commission created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, a former Crimson president, to combat Depression-era unemployment--built a gymnasium at Beverly Hills High. After college, Kaus remembers reading...
Chung and Liu met in June 1996 through mutual business contacts in Hong Kong. It was an easy marriage of interests: Chung, 43, the hustler, was always flashing his Clinton photos and looking for deals; Liu, 39, the daughter of a powerful retired general in the People's Liberation Army...
Will such evidence be sufficient? Early handicapping from antitrust experts gives Klein high odds in the first part of his case--proving Windows is a monopoly, duh--but rates his chance of overall victory as fifty-fifty at best. "Justice will have to show Microsoft has achieved a dangerous amount...
WASHINGTON: The Federal Trade Commission could file suit as early as this week against chip makers Intel, the Netly News reports. FTC chairman Robert Pitofsky charges that the silicon superpower is withholding vital technical information from its suppliers and competitors. "Our premise is that competition will feed innovation more than...
Credit risk is the problem that American banks are facing. Buried deep within the arcane bank statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is evidence of a potential chain reaction of derivatives heading toward an explosion. "I've been an analyst for almost 20 years now," says Charles Peabody...