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Well, Larry Summers, this will probably be our last communiqué for a while, though I must say it’s been an awfully one-sided dialogue. Soon spring training will be over, spring fever will hit campus, and the PSLM crazies will be out demanding $20 an hour and free toppings...
...surprising exception has been Tom.com, the Net-age offspring of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing. When Tom.com went public in February 2000, it looked to be a cynical attempt to cash in on Web fever. The portal had few assets, no track record and a vague business plan. All it offered, really, was the blessing of the legendary Li. For Hong Kong's retail investors, that was enough. They mobbed local banks in hopes of getting their hands on a few shares. If Asia's greatest dealmaker was raising cash, they figured, he was probably going to spend...
ZIMBABWE Election Fever In the run-up to this week's presidential election, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change was cautioned by police over allegations that he had plotted to murder 78-year-old leader Robert Mugabe, though Mugabe told visiting South African officials that Tsvangirai has not been charged with treason. In a confusing legal skirmish, one court overturned a law that disenfranchised many Zimbabweans, including expatriates, only to have the law reinstated later by another court. Mugabe's ZANU-PF party said it would accept any outcome of the election...
BRAZIL Killer Epidemic An outbreak of dengue fever has killed at least 18 people as it laid low one in 10 workers in Rio de Janeiro state. The mosquito-borne disease, which causes such pain that it is also known as breakbone fever, first appeared in January and is spreading at a rate of 1,600 cases a day. Thousands of soldiers have been called in to spray insecticide and clear stagnant water where the mosquitoes breed...
Snyder would later say that, although he had originally planned to become a surgeon, his interest shifted toward medical research—particularly infectious diseases—after his bout with scarlet fever...