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...campaign it is, but an educational, not a political, one. This is the western headquarters of Teach for America, a radical attempt to woo promising graduates of the nation's top colleges into teaching. Whirlwind Wendy Kopp conceived the idea when she was an undergraduate at Princeton. She developed it in her senior thesis and, since her graduation in 1989, has pursued it with obsessive zeal, organizing recruiters at 100 campuses and raising $2 million in corporate and foundation gifts. The basic notion is that non-education majors, after a crash course of training, will serve two-year stints...
...report last year on the money-laundering affair, Swiss Federal Prosecutor Dick Marty mentioned the Zurich currency-dealing firm Sharkarchi Trading. The company denies any involvement in money laundering. Shortly before publication of the prosecutor's report, Hans Kopp, a prominent Zurich lawyer and husband of Justice Minister Elisabeth Kopp, resigned his positions as a director and vice chairman of Sharkarchi. Mrs. Kopp later resigned after admitting that she had warned her husband of the impending scandal. A criminal probe will determine whether she violated official strictures of secrecy...
...firm did not hold recruiting interviewsbecause of the boycott. Robert Kopp of Bond,Schoeneck and King in Syracuse, New York, said"several people signed up, then cancelled becauseof the boycott. Only one person was left, so wecancelled...
...Kopp said she is somewhat surprised at the extent of the reaction to the incident...
...Kopp said she herself would never allow her name to be placed on anything she didn't write, but said, "It's a matter of personal choice that I wouldn't do it. I don't work that way. If someone else does work that way, it's their choice...