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...Ernst Mayr, professor emeritus of zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, received the Crafoord Prize from the Royal Academy of Sciences earlier this month, making him the first ever to win the three awards that make up the "triple crown of biology...
...keep buying consumer goods on credit--the so-called "wealth effect." But a drop in the Dow Jones index or some other shock could quickly erase those paper gains and choke off the spending boom. So while the Clinton Administration is touting consumption-driven growth, Dresdner Bank's Ernst-Moritz Lipp is critical. "We shouldn't praise as an important development something that is due to an unsustainably low savings rate driven, in turn, by an asset-price bubble," he says...
Public disclosure becomes even more crucial if Harvard decides to hire a private accounting firm to do the monitoring, instead of a non-profit organization such as Amnesty International. Recently, an independent study found that the accounting firm Ernst & Young's audit of a Nike factory in Vietnam was riddled with errors and oversights. Accounting firms are less likely to be familiar with local conditions and to earn the trust of workers than nonprofits, who typically consult with local community organizations. Furthermore, most such firms are or have been under contract to garment companies--an unacceptable conflict of interest...
MARRIED. PRINCESS CAROLINE OF MONACO, 42, and PRINCE ERNST AUGUST OF HANOVER, 44, a cousin of the Windsors; at a private civil ceremony on her birthday; in Monaco. The wedding is his second and her third (she was divorced in 1980 and widowed in 1990). Caroline first met the German prince when she was in high school...
Pressure in the local media, combined with theresults of an Ernst and Young audit, forced theissue, however. But while the club decides whetherto prosecute its former president, Harvard willkeep largely out of the picture, according toReardon...