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...faculty of the Core Curriculum should reevaluate the Core's success at "introduc[ing] students to the major approaches to knowledge," but the proposed proliferation of double-counting and course substituting does not solve the problem. Sasha Dichter...
...that Leeson never intended to run away from the debacle. Indeed, his weeklong dash from Singapore was allegedly nothing more than a long-planned holiday. In Singapore accountants looking into Leeson's transactions reported that two months' worth of records had disappeared. Finally, a Dutch banking and insurance firm, ING Group, completed its takeover of Barings...
...million), and the founding family currently boasts five different hereditary peerages, more than any other English clan since the Middle Ages. The Princess of Wales is a great granddaughter of a Baring. But last week control of Barings plc appeared to be going to the Dutch firm ING-for the decidedly nominal amount...
...Rose's accusations of elitism simply don't hold water, which brings us to what appears to be her real problem: happiness. We are charged with being "tipsy" and "bawdy," and of participating in "excess" and in a "glorified lovefest;" most damningly, Ms. Rose even accuses us of "enjoy[ing our] fete." At least one person, Ms. Rose smirkingly tattles, actually vomited from too much champagne. Naturally, we share Ms. Rose's indignation at these sickening displays of pleasure. We share her moving, not-at-all-technocratic feeling that we "should concentrate on being more productive." We are very, very...
Trader Nicholas Leeson's stock gamble cost Baring Brothers & Co. $1.46 billion, $460 million more than previously estimated, the insolvent bank said today, as the Dutch ING Group agreed to take over Baring for a token one pound, or $1.65. Leeson, now in a German prison, is fighting extradition to Singapore, where he stands accused of forging a Wall Street executive's name on a document used as collateral for a loan to Baring. Says TIME London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand: "A lot of people doubt that Leeson was this lone cowboy who just blew this bomb up inside, with...