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...brief and ultimately fruitless trial this December, Shleifer’s lawyers argued their client had not technically been “assigned to” Russia and was therefore not bound by the conflict-of-interest provision. Though Shleifer’s title was project director, he conducted most his work from an office at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) in Cambridge...
...need to reproduce their own versions of the U.S.'s tech-heavy NASDAQ exchange. After a few lackluster years, some, like Germany's Neuer Markt, fell out of favor and the survivors are lightly traded. More recently, market mergers have been all the rage - witness the so-far fruitless attempts by pan-European Euronext and Deutsche Börse to take over the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Now a new craze seems to be catching on as quickly as the latest mobile ringtone: small-cap markets. Euronext last week launched Alternext, its junior, Paris-based market for small firms, just...
...tried to celebrate the last of the upper-echelon hurlers, even as their ranks thinned year by year and the masses around me drank the Kool-Aid and succumbed to the seduction of the home run. But ultimately, it proved fruitless to resist the well-laid plans of the ash-wielding tyrants. Their largest offensive—launched in that fateful summer of ’98—proved too strong for any resistance, and the entire nation became entranced by the hypnotic potion of ball after ball flying out of the shrunken cathedrals. By the time the final...
...police log. HUPD was called after a man was seen masturbating by another patron in the open shower of the men’s locker room, says a member of the MAC staff. Unfortunately, this self-loving bandit managed to escape before he could be apprehended. Following fruitless investigation, the case was recently closed...
...shows that the Harvard College Library (HCL) system is attempting to serve student needs. Yet one student need that HCL has continued to neglect is the need to get out of the library, quickly and without a hassle—that is, without the time-consuming and fruitless cavity search...