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...dining halls and on the campus open e-mail lists of Harvard College, Summers’ remarks have sparked a flurry of debate as students take a break from studying for final exams to weigh in on the University president’s latest foray into the national spotlight...
Neighborhood leaders and city politicians protested Harvard’s purchase of 91 acres of Allston land from the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority in June 2003. But Harvard’s latest foray into Boston did not provoke an outcry from residents, who said they had expected the purchase...
...years Tanzi hid his company's difficulties by expanding. Following a disastrous foray into television in the 1980s, he staved off bankruptcy by engineering a reverse merger with a dormant holding company listed on the Milan stock exchange and followed up with a big capital increase. That enabled Parmalat to go public in 1990 and plug some of the gaps in its accounts. As early as 1993, according to evidence given to magistrates in Parma, Parmalat allegedly began to play fast and loose with its balance sheet. Starting in 1992, the group began buying up dairy and other companies...
...Fund for Cultural Enrichment is not the theater company’s first foray into charity. According to Worthington, the group raised an additional $4,000 last year for other causes including the AIDS Action Committee. This year, the Theatricals will use its annual charity night—a performance from which all the proceeds go to charity—to benefit the Broadway Care Group...
...fair, Lenovo does gain some benefits from its foray abroad. Lenovo's new CEO will be the highly regarded IBM veteran Stephen Ward, who will steer the business from Lenovo's new headquarters in Armonk, New York?a convenient location from which to target the U.S. market. The breadth of Lenovo's product line will improve, too: it will offer clients IBM's upscale laptops, in addition to its own line of cheap desktop computers. And then there's the IBM name. "They are going to ride the coattails of the IBM brand," says Bryan Ma, a Singapore-based analyst...