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...September 2009 means it's unlikely he ever will. But by orchestrating Oxford's mammoth $2.5 billion campaign, he'll have played no small part in increasing the university's competitiveness in the years to come. On June 18, the university pocketed a $50 million donation from Michael Moritz, a U.S.-based venture capitalist, one of its biggest ever. He has done his bit for the dreaming spires. For the remaining Oxford alumni out there, the question is: Have...
...federal government's 100:1 ratio, only 13 states still make a legal distinction between crack and powder cocaine, and none of these states applies as harsh a ratio as 100:1. But according to Douglas Berman, a professor and sentencing expert at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law, prosecutors have an extraordinary amount of discretion in deciding whether a case gets tried in state or federal court. "Ironically," he says, "the more lenient a state is on these issues, the more likely the local federal prosecutor will say, 'Well, I have to take these cases to really...
...Crimson. Lightweight captain Pat Mulcahy sat seven-seat in the second varsity eight last year, while fellow senior Matthew Fasman, who is also a chair of the Crimson’s information technology board, rowed in the third varsity in 2007.Young’s fellow varsity oarsman, Moritz Hafner, is spending what would be his senior year in Switzerland training for the 2008 Olympics. “Over half the varsity team at the moment seems to be sophomores,” says junior Phillip Parham, who rowed in the bow seat of the second varsity last year...
...Harvard and Radcliffe rowers, however, stole that chance from the rest of the crowd. It was a day of successes, from a first in the collegiate open men’s division by senior Toby Medaris and a second place among the collegiate lightweight men going to junior Moritz Hafner to a fourth-place finish for Radcliffe heavyweight junior Laura Larsen-Strecker in the collegiate open women’s. Medaris, who was also seventh overall in the open men’s with a time of 05:59.5, said he had been expecting to do well, as training...
Mittal himself credits his son Aditya with the idea of buying Arcelor. They first discussed the possibility in 2005, while in the midst of acquiring a Ukrainian company, then drilled into the detail of a possible bid last December, during a family skiing holiday in St. Moritz. On Jan. 13, Mittal made an informal approach to Dollé over dinner at his London mansion and, when Dollé gave a noncommittal answer, he took his bid directly to shareholders...