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...them give up. During her year of unemployment, Zoe Quan has plumbed her network of contacts, built over 17 years in telecommunications, to no avail. Her degrees from Harvard and the University of Chicago have not bailed her out, nor has her minority status. "Diversity in hiring has fallen away as a priority," she notes. Quan, single and in her 40s, has only a few months' worth of living expenses left in her nest egg. Yet she has turned down jobs that she feels don't fit her career goals, and she is thinking of going solo as a consultant...
Napoleon once remarked that if the world were a single state, Istanbul would be its rightful capital. The Turkish city's fortunes have risen and fallen on the tides of empire, being last demoted when Ankara became the capital of the newly founded republic in 1923. But 2,700-year-old Istanbul is used to comebacks, and today the city is enjoying a massive revival, thanks to a deft mix of old and new. Driving toward the city center from the new airport, you pass through 5th century walls built by Emperor Theodosius II. Downtown, Roman, Byzantine and Otto...
...bust last year, and Orange-sponsored Arrows is likely to follow suit, Formula One has to bite the bullet, now. Archive: Schumy the Great THE BOURSE Insolvency, She Wrote Deutsche Bank paid €667 million for a 40.3% share in Axel Springer, Europe's top publisher, once owned by fallen media baron Leo Kirch. The bank then sold 10.4% of the stake to Friede Springer, giving her control. Turning Each Other On The U.K.'s two largest commercial broadcasters, Carlton and Granada, agreed on merger plans to create a new company worth over $4 billion. The deal will face strict...
...insurers had to adapt to the sharp, sustained drop in interest rates during the 1990s. At the same time, to entice new customers, they had to offer returns that would compete with giddy stock markets. By any standard, the results have been calamitous. European insurance stocks have fallen by 58% this year - even worse than the 50% drop in European telecommunications stocks - compared with an overall market decline of about 35%. Many analysts say the equity sell-off by insurers is a key reason why European markets have performed worse than the U.S. stock market, which is down about...
With the victory, the Eagles’ regional standing—once second only to Connecticut—has suddenly taken a turn for the worse now that they have fallen to Boston University and Harvard in recent weeks...