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This week, Antigua officials confirmed Stanford owns a nearby island, Guiana, as well as hundreds of acres on Antigua. Stanford is one of the largest private employers in Antigua, where his businesses include a real estate company, a cricket stadium, a newspaper and two restaurants...
...model for nationalizations could prove valuable in the months ahead. The government is in the process of stress-testing the nation's largest banks as part of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's plan to fix the ailing banking sector. And many think the outcome of those tests could lead to more takeovers. So far, Geithner and other officials have denied they are interested in running banks. But in the past few weeks, a number of prominent Republicans and fiscal conservatives, most notably former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and Senator Lindsey Graham, have joined those who think the government should...
...recent weeks, a variety of groups have come out in protest, from truckers to small business owners. The largest was a crowd of 10,000 demonstrating against the Kiev city council's handling of the financial crisis, which has pushed the mayor to propose novel ways of filling the city's coffers, such as charging entrance fees to cemeteries. And this is only the beginning: A recent KIIS survey revealed that 41% of Ukrainians are ready to hit the streets. "There is a crisis of trust in the authorities," says Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Penta Center for Applied Political...
There will be no starving artists at Harvard. Just over a week after University officials announced that the endowment—the largest in higher education—fell a precipitous 22 percent in a four-month period, the University-wide Task Force on the Arts called for ambitious plans to bolster the place of arts on campus.The committee proposed the construction of major new arts facilities and sweeping changes to the undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs. Yet with a projected 30 percent decline in endowment value by the end of June, Harvard administrators are slashing budgets and curtailing University...
There's little affection in a "Glasgow kiss." Typically preceded by some variation of the growled question "Whit ya [expletive] lookin' at?" the term refers to a vicious headbutt, as delivered all too often in the bars and on the streets of Scotland's largest city. Alcohol-fueled violence and binge-drinking are endemic across Britain, but the phenomenon is especially acute north of the border - and it's getting worse. That's why Scottish ministers this week announced radical plans to curb excess drinking...