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...managed nearly imploded in June--as the subject of the industry's most feverish when-will-he-go talk. Citi was far from alone in its troubles. BofA (profits down 32%) and Wachovia (down 10%) had bad quarters too, as did investment banks Morgan Stanley (down 7%) and Merrill Lynch (which recorded a loss...
...wedding, you signify by your presence a pledge of support for this marriage of a new president to a venerable institution. As our colleagues in anthropology understand so well, rituals have meanings and purposes; they are intended to arouse emotions and channel intentions. In ritual, as the poet Thomas Lynch has written, “We act out things we cannot put into words.” But now my task is in fact to put some of this ceremony into words, to capture our meanings and purposes...
...longtime student activist implored students to “call the man who killed your party grants…let’s ensure that [Dean Pilbeam] has a really nice day, feel free to call every hour.” Have we really come to such a lynch mob mentality? The Harvard of gentlefolk is apparently dead.In a discussion of campus social life, Lewis writes that “‘inadequate social life’ as defined by students today is synonymous with ‘nonalcoholic parties.’ Student leaders take any attempt...
...organizations and foreign governments. "This and that department, the World Bank, human rights blah blah blah, over and over, it becomes so boring," he says. He's also courting corporate America. In the last few years, Kagame has met with the bosses at Microsoft, Google, eBay, Starbucks, Costco, Merrill Lynch and Bechtel. He's hosted Starbucks chairman Howard Schultz and CEO Jim Donald, and in March was the star speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked by the business we do together...
Natori quit her job as a vice president at Merrill Lynch and set to work creating her first collection. Thirty years later, the woman who gave us the seamless bra and modern, chic camisoles that can be worn either to bed or out on the town has four lingerie lines available everywhere, from Saks to Dillard's. She is also expanding into menswear and home, with a bedding collection and, down the road, rugs, tableware and lighting...