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While some of the events (such as the showcasing of jeweler Omaskas at the Harvard Club on Saturday night, entrance fee = $60) might be out of the average college student's budget range, those whose bank accounts are still feeling the effects of a Spring Break-related splurge can partake in the wonder that is Spring Fashion Weekend. The majority of the events are, in fact, free. Makeup artist David Nicholas hosts an open house and high tea to introduce his spring/summer 2001 cosmetic line on Saturday, and Culture in the Courtyard (an open air group fashion show) takes place...
...commercial birth. Deshpande gave a spirited presentation at last year's World Economic Summit in Davos. But drumming up actual investment on the downside of a boom is a tough task, especially with a business plan that allows for easy access to the Simputer design (for a nominal fee) and an open-code software-sharing initiative. The theory is that the arrangement will promote widespread use and higher revenues from licensing. Noble, but perhaps naive. "The venture capitalists simply freeze when they hear the word 'free,'" says Professor V. Vinay, one of the founders. "Some ask the standard VC question...
...enable management to profit from the growing rash of defections. The so-called posting system gives a player still a year or two shy of free-agent eligibility the opportunity to sign up with a major league team - if that team agrees to pay his Japanese club a negotiating fee. Last year the 27-year-old Ichiro became the first Japanese star to use posting. From the deal, his team, the Blue Wave, earned a crisp $13 million. To some observers such tactics smack of price-fixing, market discrimination and possible violation of antitrust law: if the player does...
...company's research shows that most students can afford the monthly $19.95, or an annual fee of $149, for access. "Kids today have a ton of money--about $260 a month besides book money," says marketing head Kathleen Clark. Many students are older "multitaskers," combining school, work and family life. They can't be in the stacks at midnight...
...grand jury in the federal pardons investigation this week, sources tell TIME. Quinn, a former White House counsel who took the pardon request straight to his former boss, has been grilled on the extent and content of his contacts with executive branch officials and others, as well as his fee arrangements with Rich, according to people familiar with the inquiry...