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...trust in banking-friendly nations such as the Cayman Islands is becoming popular. And it can protect assets if you get sued. But foreign trusts do not excuse you from paying taxes. Yet that's exactly the kind of tip you'll get from thousands of websites offering "expert" advice on moving your money offshore. If the site recommends a "pure" or "constitutional" trust, steer clear. Read about this and other traps and scams at www.assetprotectioncorp.com...
...with everyone from bellhops to biologists following every blip in the Dow on cable-TV channels and financial websites, passive investing is starting to become passe. "Everybody's an expert," grumbles a high-ranking executive at one fund company--a reference to the growing legion of e-traders who are sucking money from money managers at a rate that is starting to test their nerves. Sure, the $5.9 trillion fund industry is still chugging along quite nicely. But after a decade of explosive growth, it seems poised for a shakeout, as too many stock funds (about 3,500 at last...
...make the Shoah ever more central to our consciousness. And he wonders whether this attention "is as desirable...as most people seem to think it is." It's a controversial thesis, made more so by the book's intensely polemical tone. Says James Young, a University of Massachusetts Holocaust expert who is advising the city of Berlin on its much disputed memorial: "Peter's a very good historian, and he wants to close the gap between the knowledge of historians and of the public. And to that I say, 'Great. But good luck...
...problem of the 21st century will involvethe debate over who has access to the powergranted by a Harvard education--a question leftunanswered after Du Bois posed it nearly a centuryago.CRIMSONLAURA K. COBBADMISSIONS EXPERT: HEATHER C. CHANG '99,a student coordinator of the UndergraduateMinority Recruitment Program, also wrote herhonors thesis on race-based admissions...
...needs to think about those things,"Landers says. Perhaps she has Fineberg--a healthissues expert--in mind. Many officials say theyhave been impressed with the job he has done asprovost...