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...said he wasn’t really planning on applying until his Tutors in Eliot House and Professor of Government Michael Sandel encouraged him to take the leap...
...some of its players - will leap forward tremendously," says Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, the British sponsorship consultants. That grating sound you hear is the gnashing of Australian teeth. Banking On A Happy Ending This week, time may finally run out for French billionaire François Pinault, the French government and some other top executives in their decade-long legal fight with U.S. prosecutors over Crédit Lyonnais. In the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding foreign banks from...
...which had only one dusty Steinway. His father gave up his job as a policeman to take the 8-year-old Lang Lang to Beijing for a year and a half of arduous preparations for the Central Conservatory. At 15, after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. By the time he stepped in for an ailing Andre Watts at Chicago's Ravinia Festival in 1999, the classical establishment was ready to embrace him as a new Evgeny Kissin or even Van Cliburn: a fresh personality with a staggering technique and an engagingly...
Little Touch Leap Pad A spin-off of LeapFrog's popular interactive book, this one is for the crawling, drooling set of 6- to 36-month-olds. Comes with more than 100 lessons; more available at $15 each. leapfrog.com...
...fill our boots at Charleroi without requiring any subsidy at all." "In the short term things could be quite messy, but none of this is going to destroy the Ryanair model," says Goodbody researcher Gill. Ryanair's six-monthly figures announced two weeks ago showed a 45% leap in passengers and 16% in profits. That success is due less to subsidies than to relentless cost control. Now the company is eyeing expensive trunk routes like Milan/Rome and Barcelona/Madrid, where the major airlines rule the roost. So don't put Ryanair on the slag heap just yet. The European Commission...