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Fourteen months ago, after mulling a list of defunct Wi-Fi start-ups, Schell brought AT&T, IBM and Intel together to discuss a jointly funded $30 million Wi-Fi network blanketing 50 U.S. metropolitan areas. He dubbed the venture Project Rainbow. Each side could see the benefit: IBM sold approximately $1 billion in Wi-Fi services in 2002, Intel was looking for a way to get into the wireless chip game, and AT&T provided the communications backbone for 8 million road warriors. But as IBM's representative John Boutross remembers, the talks were initially very static: "These large...
...Germany's regulations are outdated," he says, "and executives can't be held liable in a civil court until they are penalized by a criminal court." That should change soon, as lawmakers catch up to international standards. Meanwhile, if this sentence survives appeal, many titans of Germany's now-defunct Neuer Markt have a new reason for stage fright. The Bottom Line Mr. Brown is not really the rather dour person he tries to present to us, but rather a romantic character BRIDGET ROSEWELL, economist for the Greater London Authority, on the British Chancellor's highly optimistic growth forecasts
...mind when you think of the South, but Fried’s family has a history of pursuing an eclectic mix of athletics. His father, Jeffrey Fried, was a three-time All-Ivy High Jumper and former school record holder at University of Pennsylvania. He also owned the now-defunct Macon Whoppee, a minor-league hockey team. His sister Susie is an aspiring Olympian in equestrian, and his uncle Neil was a professional body builder...
...administration will be quick to point out, Harvard pays other taxes and has done much in the way of bringing prestige and business to Cambridge. But PILOT payments are a good investment in positive relations with our neighbors. Recent fights over Harvard development—including, notably, the defunct plans for a tunnel under Cambridge Street and a modern art museum on the Charles River that never materialized—demonstrate that both the school and the city lose when politics turn ugly...
...improvements to the Fogg were placed on the back burner while Harvard focused its energy on the now-defunct plans for a new museum and other building projects. By the time renovation plans were postponed, Harvard had already confirmed exhibition times with both London’s National Gallery and Lyon’s Musee des Beaux-Arts...