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...Given the complexity of the Hong Kong operation, such "teething pains" are hardly surprising, says Rasulo. What may be tougher to solve, though, are the yawns the miniature park is generating among tourists. Rasulo says the park wasn't built on a grand scale because the Chinese didn't grow up with Disney and don't know the characters as well as Americans and Europeans do, which acts as a constraint on its potential audience. Ernest calls it a "great introductory park." They also point out that the company plans to keep adding new attractions at Hong Kong Disneyland, including...
...League education are not your typically college students.The majority of candidates in the Bachelor of Liberal Arts (ALB) program, the four year undergraduate program of the Harvard Extension School, are working adults. But, according to Mark Ouchida, assistant director of the ALB program, a small but growing number of ALB candidates are coming directly out of high school. This growing population also faces new challenges, having to establish an non-traditional identity at a university where tradition reigns.AN IVY DEGREE AT A STATE SCHOOL PRICECurrently, less than 10 percent of the roughly 150 students accepted into the ALB program each...
...lunchtime lull at London's Financial Times, which is letting him work part-time at his job editing business feature stories while he promotes the book. (A U.S. tour is scheduled for the summer.) "Not at all. At school I was a swot, into books." But Malkani did grow up firmly in the middle of desi culture, despite his mother's insistence that he speak English at home instead of Urdu or his father's ancestral Sindhi. "At Cambridge I did a social sciences degree, and when it came time for my dissertation, I said I wanted to write about...
...almost convinced myself that the 4-in.-high dust bunnies lurking in my house were good for my baby. "She'll grow up accustomed to dirt and won't develop allergies," I reasoned illogically. But in truth, my house was filthy. I didn't have the money to hire someone to clean it, and I was sure I didn't have time to clean it myself. But 10 months after my daughter's birth, as she progressed from immobile infant to roving, teething toddler, I ran out of excuses. The image of her actually confronting those unsanitary bunnies was enough...
...haven't been able to crack the commercial segment--the FORTUNE 2000 companies that buy thousands of computers every year. That's where we have the best opportunity to grow...