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...competition among global financial centers. The Swiss are world leaders in managing cross-border private wealth, holding more than a quarter of the total assets parked by residents of one country in another. (Use the word offshore to a Swiss banker and you?re liable to get a half-hour lecture on why Switzerland is not an offshore financial center?mostly because the term offshore is ill-defined and mildly pejorative, associated with a lack of regulation...
...stations go after older kids too. WTIP in Grand Marais, Minn., offers Ragamuffin Radio, which was created and is produced by teens. The half-hour show, which airs every Monday, includes music as varied as jazz and folk, stories and reported features on topics such as starting a new school year or celebrating Kwanzaa. "Because WTIP is a community station and kids are part of the community, we wanted a program that represented that," says Mary Igoe, the program director. Her daughter Ada, 17, has worked on the show for three years. "Sometimes I don't feel like doing...
Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said yesterday that HASCS did not know what is at the root of the repeated failures. But he said that Hewlett Packard (HP), the vendor of Harvard’s servers, was called in within the first half-hour of the failures, as HASCS believe the problem most likely lies with the equipment provided by the vendor...
...channel will use this kind of material for the first of 13 episodes of The Anna Nicole Show, a half-hour reality program about the former Playboy Playmate of the Year and Guess? model, now 34, who, assuming the final appeal of her inheritance case goes her way, will receive $88 million from her late nonagenarian billionaire husband, whom she met while dancing at a strip club. The Phantom Menace didn't have this much back story...
It’s summertime, but the living isn’t easy at Harvard Summer School. Lecture times have shot up from the customary 53 minutes to two and a half-hour sessions, last Monday saw the first organic chemistry test and pre-professional classes not offered during the year are now available, drawing throngs of students looking to get a step ahead on future careers...