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...Kennedy Administration and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his Portfolio Selection theory; in New Haven. INDICTED. The Arthur Andersen accounting firm, 88, on one count of obstruction of justice for allegedly destroying evidence related to the failed Enron Corp., by a federal grand jury; in Houston. LICENSED. Mike Tyson, 35, for a championship bout against current heavyweight titleholder Lennox Lewis; in Washington, D.C. Tyson was denied a boxing license by Nevada authorities, after a press conference melee in January...
...just the plot that has been constructed to demonstrate a clash between Easteran and Western cultural values. The relationships seem to have been constructed to demonstrate the ravages of globalization: Hemant, for example, has flown in from Houston and is clumsily out of touch with traditional Indian customs; Aditi’s cousin begins an affair with a distant Australian relative whose western norms of sexual permissiveness complicate the coupling; and the wedding planner, Mr. Dubey (Vijay Razz) threatens to become a mocking caricature of the upwardly mobile Indian, with his prized collection of digital gadgetry, dedication...
...million Amount paid by the Houston Astros to buy back the naming rights to the former Enron Field...
...anonymous Web-surfing days of yore may soon return if Brandon K. Guttman ’00-’02 has his way. Guttman and his business partner Dan Houston ’01 recently unveiled the first commercial version of Jimmy Surf, software that promises to keep an Internet user’s net history a secret between him, his god and, well, Jimmy Surf...
...letter from FK in Palm Springs. “I use [Jimmy Surf] to surf my sister’s computer and she never finds out where I’ve been online,” extols FK. What sites has the Californian been frequenting? Thanks to Guttman and Houston, the world and FK’s poor sister will never know...