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Lawyers for Nicholas Leeson, the trader whose high-flying deals put Barings Bank out of business, insisted that Leeson never intended to run away from the debacle. Indeed, his weeklong dash from Singapore was allegedly nothing more than a long-planned holiday. In Singapore accountants looking into Leeson's transactions reported that two months' worth of records had disappeared. Finally, a Dutch banking and insurance firm, ING Group, completed its takeover of Barings...
...told, Harvard compiled nine straight first places, running the gamut of events. The Crimson took first in the mile, the hurdles, the shot out, the triple and high jumps, and the 400, 800, 200 and 55 meter dash...
...American terms he's a little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...
...also quick. When you write a letter there's sometimes more room so you have to fill it up and spend more time. With e-mail, you can just dash off a couple of lines and send it off," Ahmed says...
...auto-navigation systems being developed by Rockwell, among others. To use the Rockwell system, which is already available on some Oldsmobiles, the motorist types the address of his destination on a dash-mounted keypad and reads his instructions on an adjoining screen. Using a small computer in the trunk to process signals from the military's satellite global positioning system, the navigator will track the vehicle's progress and regularly update instructions, including the name of the street where the next turn should be made. As the motorist nears the intersection, a computer voice directs him to "turn left...