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...Combined, the three earned the Crimson a 15th place finish in the division. Harvard’s 107 points beat Eckerd by five and were also five behind Rhode Island at 14th...
...culinary chatter you might expect to hear in the world's dining capitals - but Koh Samui? Once upon a time, the only foods associated with this backpacker destination were hallucinogenic-mushroom omelettes, street-corner noodles and [an error occurred while processing this directive] barroom burgers. But today, the island off Thailand's east coast is heading upmarket. Slick new resorts are luring older, more affluent travelers, and in their wake has come an army of chefs and entrepreneurs, hoping to cash in. "Four to five years ago there were 20 [quality] restaurants here," says John Andersen, co-publisher of fledgling...
...most people in the corporate world, the Caribbean is the perfect spot for that next much needed vacation. Irish entrepreneur Denis O'Brien, however, eyed the island nations and saw just one thing: customers. In 2001, O'Brien had a bit of cash burning a hole in his pocket from the $2.46 billion sale of his first telecom venture, Esat Telecom Group PLC. By chance, he came upon a small notice from the government of Jamaica announcing that it was opening its local phone market--long monopolized by British telecom giant Cable & Wireless--to competition. At the time, Jamaicans...
What's more, O'Brien has done some island hopping. Digicel boasts 3 million subscribers in 22 countries throughout the Caribbean, Latin America and the South Pacific, as well as more than $600 million in revenues for the last fiscal year. In early 2007, he plans to establish Digicel in at least three new countries, including the one that might be overly ambitious, even for O'Brien: the U.S. and its $100 billion cell-phone market. O'Brien says he sees an underserved population, noting stats from the International Telecommunications Union that show only about 68 phones for every...
...Ecevit held the position four more times over the next 30 years. A left-leaning nationalist, Ecevit's reforms at home were overshadowed by his hawkish foreign policy. Despite international opposition, Ecevit ordered Turkish troops into Cyprus in 1974 following a Greek-backed coup. His intervention split the island in two, and led to decades of deadlock with Greece...