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...risk to life misses the point. Certainly, manned space flight is impractical. It was dangerous to first venture out at night. It was risky to climb the first mountain. It seemed impossible to sail across the ocean. We do these things not for practicality but for dreams. JEFF HEWITT Norfolk...
...certain, and place all the risk with the employee rather than the employer: what workers take out at retirement depends on how their investments perform.) Experts remain unconvinced that such moves will solve long-term problems. "That solution is a very slow burn," says Raj Mody of U.K. actuaries Hewitt, Bacon & Woodrow. "All you're doing is addressing past promises." Much of the current furor over U.K. pensions grew out of a recently introduced accounting standard, FRS 17, which requires U.K. firms to disclose their pension-fund assets and liabilities. Some fund managers note that FRS 17 numbers differ from...
JUST A FEW MEMORIES FOR SALE The statute OF limitations for exploiting Princess Diana has apparently not yet expired. Last week her former lover James Hewitt said on Larry King Live that he was prepared to sell intimate letters she had written him. The couple's romance (they are seen below in 1991) took place during Diana's marriage and lasted from 1986 to 1991. Lest one think he's merely looking for quick cash, Hewitt said he believed that the letters were an "important historical document" and that "a lot of good" could come from the money he would...
...legendary Studio 54. Reasoning that his nightclub's hip clientele would want to stay in hip hotels, he created such architectural landmarks as London's Sanderson and St. Martin's Lane. Now that concept is celebrated in an exhibition, "New Hotels for Global Nomads," at New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Curator Donald Albrecht says it aims to explore the hotel, not just for cutting-edge architecture and interior design, but as a source of mystery and refuge in the urban wilderness. Look out for digital renderings of Jean Nouvel's Hotel Broadway in New York...
...When you look at the gap in productivity between Britain and the rest of the world, too often it’s poor management of production processes and poor management of people that accounts for the gap,” Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt told the Financial Times...