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...budget of about $65 million a year from member countries' donations - approximately the same amount that the New York Police Department spends in an average week. Interpol's staff in Lyons joke bitterly that the organization costs little more than David Beckham's salary at the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer club. "It's peanuts," says Jean-Michel Louboutin, Interpol's executive director of police services...
...much better now. Six years after Interpol began collecting stolen document details, its list contains about 8 million passports and 6 million identity documents - the only such international database in the world. Aside from J.F.K. Airport, Miami and Los Angeles airports have begun to make routine checks of passports against Interpol's list while passengers are still in the air. And the system will roll out at U.S. ports within the next few months, says Interpol's Washington director, Martin Renkiewicz. "We process between 10,000 and 12,000 messages monthly from various officers seeking assistance on investigative matters," says...
Frustrated by the lack of resources available to students interested in “the biz,” Riverton compiled an e-mail list of recent grads in Hollywood and fellow students with similar aspirations. She moved to Los Angeles in 1999 after graduation, and it was through this “Harvard in Hollywood” list that Riverton got in contact with Adam J. Fratto ’90 and Stacy Cohen ’89, two alums who had been informally assisting Harvard students navigate the industry. The three grads recognized the need to expand Harvard?...
...such opportunity was what is now called “Harvardwood 101,” an intersession trip that brings about 20 students to Los Angeles. In order to legally accept University funding for the program, Harvardwood applied to become a 501-c-3 non-profit corporation. Their approval in late 2002 transformed this group of people with similar interests into a organization with an official structure...
...trip, which has run every year since 2003, serves as a survey course of myriad career paths in the entertainment industry, from screenwriting to radio broadcasting. Countless Harvard alums have opened up their homes and workplaces to bright-eyed students, many of whom have never been to Los Angeles before...