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...Wodin, Thursday for Thor or (the equivalent of Jupiter), Friday for the German goddess Friga (Venus) and Saturday for the Roman god Saturn. Five of the first six months of the year honored various gods (Janus, Mars, Maia, Juno) and religious rituals (the period of purification known as februum). Julius and Augustus Caesar, gods of the Empire, got their own months, after which the Romans ran out of inspiration, or deities, and designated the last third of the year with numerals: the 7th (September), 8th (October), 9th (November) and 10th (December) months...
...King of Scotland” recounts the terror of Idi Amin’s dictatorship. Amin attempts to keep the crown certain by eliminating any threats, but this, paradoxically, only increases his constituents’ desire to change leaders. Shakespeare understood this well, as readers of “Julius Caesar,” “Richard II,” and “Richard III” can attest. “All the King’s Men” shows the rise and fall of a charismatic populist unable to handle the mechanisms of real...
...announcement of the new center occurred at a “Child Health and Development in the 21st Century” symposium honoring the former U.S. surgeon general and Harvard Medical School professor emeritus of health policy, Julius B. Richmond...
...world's largest financial institutions?among them HSBC, UBS and Citigroup?are expanding their Singapore presence. Credit Suisse, for example, currently employs roughly 500 private bankers in Singapore, more than any place outside Switzerland?and the bank has plans to hire 100 more this year. Bank Julius Baer, the venerable Swiss private bank, has similarly high expectations. "We're trying to position Singapore as a second leg [after Zurich] to our operation," says Thomas Meier, head of the company's private-banking arm in Asia. Says Didier von Daeniken, head of private banking for Credit Suisse in Southeast Asia...
...three regional players, yet it still controls just 3-4% of the Asia market. With customers up for grabs, selling services can be about marketing the sizzle?bragging rights and a sense of privilege?as well as the steak. Thomas Meier, head of Asian private banking at Bank Julius Baer, one of Switzerland's oldest private banks, argues that his institution's classic pedigree gives it a particular edge in Asia. Headquartered in Zurich, the firm started out more than a century ago as a simple foreign-exchange office on the city's exclusive Bahnhofstrasse, where Switzerland's largest banks...