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...wars and revolutions; a bit of bother in the outre-mer hardly fazes them. Both firms were built around water concessions first granted in the 19th century. The Compagnie Générale des Eaux, which evolved into Veolia, was born in 1853 when the progressive councilors of Emperor Napoleon III granted a group of investors the concession to provide water to the city of Lyon. It was such a hit on the Paris stock market that the company soon spun off its own bank, Société Générale. Competing bank Crédit Lyonnais parried in 1880 with the creation...
...III. FINAL TRUCE? On March 9, East and West Coast icons Diddy and Snoop officially buried the hatchet by touring together. Days later, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame--the first hip-hop artists to achieve such recognition. Some feuds may go on, but rap's Wild West era may be over...
...said, citing a Swedish proverb. Blix criticized current US policy and said international cooperation is necessary to prevent nuclear proliferation. “I have the feeling they think anyone outside the Beltway might be a nuclear proliferator,†he said. James F. Collins III ’07 said after the event that “It was evident from his speech that he cares a lot about these issues, I thought it was...good to hear it from the horse’s mouth.†The lecture was co-sponsored by the International Relations...
...partnership of Robert D. Salas ’08 and Winter Mead III ’08 is mostly a testament to the luck of freshman rooming assignments. The former freshman hallmates are currently co-directing their second play in two years, a production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar†in the Loeb Ex. Salas: Sophomore fall, we co-directed “The White Rose†by Lillian Garrett-Groag—about German youth in Nazi Germany—and we’ve been working together artistically since. Mead...
...month H-2B visas (for non-professional, non-agricultural labor) from Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Peru to work at the front desk, in maintenance, and as cleaning staff for Decatur's 15 luxury hotels throughout the New Orleans area. Decatur, founded in 1988 by Quinn and Edwin Palmer III, prides itself on turning abandoned historic buildings into boutique hotels. Decatur's lawyer Patricia LeBlanc told the Associated Press on Aug. 17 that the hotel firm sought to use the H-2B program for the first time after Katrina because the company had consistent problems finding hourly workers locally...