Word: foundered
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...holdings. The stake had increased by 1,150 shares by the end of last year, according to SEC filings. The group laid out plans to begin a coordinated campaign for divestment at an organizational meeting of 13 students yesterday. Morse and Benjamin B. Collins ’06, co-founder of Darfur Action Coalition, outlined a plan to mobilize students and faculty that included petitions, faculty outreach, and a full report on divestment. The group plans to have a table at the upcoming faculty meeting on Feb. 28 to rally support for divestment. The students accused firms operating in Sudan...
...Audiences, not least of all. Having drawn nearly 300,000 people to his arena operas at London's Royal Albert Hall, Freeman, 53, has helped revolutionize the art form from within. As founder of the Opera Factory, first in Sydney and later in London as part of the English National Opera, he earned his stripes as an avant-gardist, famous for stripping his singers - literally, as in his 1988 Cos? Fan Tutte set on a beach. (Amelia, Jaewoo and Emma, fear not.) But when The Magic Flute opens in Sydney this week, their talents will be similarly exposed. "I wanted...
...hemispheric aesthetic. In addition to a violin and cello (played by Hanna Khoury and Kinan Abou-Afach, respectively), the ensemble included an ‘ud (Kareem Roustom), a guitar-like instrument that is the predecessor to the European lute; a qanum (played by Xauen Music founder and director of CCOE, Hicham Chami), a trapezoidal stringed instrument akin to the zither; and a riqq (Karim Nagi), a handheld percussion instrument similar to the tambourine. Accompanying the instrumentalists were two vocalists, Youssef Kassab and Albert Agha...
...plans to have more than 1 million hot spots by 2010. Subscribers will pay less than $2 a day to have guaranteed wireless access wherever they roam. More than 3,000 people have signed up since the beta version launched in November. "It's a dream come true," FON founder Martin Varsavsky says of his new partners, although he demurs on the specific roles Google and Skype will play. Sounds as if he has found his lucky star...
...Tokyo Stock Shock "Living on the Edge" described the scandal about charges that the Japanese Internet company Livedoor was involved in illegal securities manipulation [Jan. 30]. Livedoor's founder and ceo, Takafumie Horie, had kept on holding press conferences because the company caters to naive individual shareholders who put their trust in what they see on TV. The comment by Horie, "What I care about most is the publicity the company gets," held to be true. The benefit everyone gains from the Livedoor shock is the awareness that the public needs to have a higher level of financial literacy. Livedoor...