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...Wealthy parents aren't completely on their own when it comes to teaching their kids about money. Private banks are increasingly offering programs to educate the scions of high-net-worth customers in the finer points of financial management. "People tend to assume that if you have wealth, you have knowledge of wealth," says Sebastian Dovey, managing partner at Scorpio Partnership, which in August helped Swiss bank UBS roll out Dialogue, a new financial-education service. But having money and being savvy about it are "not directly linked," he says. Another such program is Citi Private Bank's annual NextGen...
...Crimson knocked a corner kick into the box. The Lions defense deflected a Harvard shot, but senior Rachel Lau was able to control the ball outside the box. She then sent it back into the box to Hagner, who slammed a one-timer into the back of the net. Hagner’s goal against the Lions was her sixth of the season. She is tied for the Crimson lead and is fifth in the Ivy League in scoring this season. Columbia tied the game 1-1 early in the second half, but neither team could earn the game-winner...
...obsession, but it’s paid huge dividends.That said, I hope you haven’t paid attention to the Crimson’s special teams this season—or last, for that matter. Harvard currently sits last in the league in punt returns, kickoff returns, and net punting, a year after finishing third, seventh, and seventh in those categories (in fairness, the squad’s kickoff coverage has been excellent).This weakness has the potential to become especially visible this weekend, when Harvard travels to Penn. The Quakers lead the league in kick returns, are third...
Other sites, like the month-old Wishabi, involve members acting as personal shoppers. People post wish lists while deal hunters (anyone can serve as one) search the Net to find the best bargains for those items. The results are then rated by the site's Deal Rank software. If the person ends up buying an item, the deal hunter who found the price gets a small percentage of the commission. "People are leveraging other people to determine if deals are good," says Wehuns Tan, CEO of Wishabi. Adds Resource Interactive's Rollins: "The retailer that accepts that social media...
...stifle free expression on the Internet,” said Joseph P. Zimmerman ’10, the vice president of communications at HCS. In 2007, Obama publicly stated that he supports Internet neutrality. “As president, I’m going to make sure that [net neutrality] is the principle that my FCC commissioners are applying as we move forward,” he said. Network neutrality is a concept in network design that states that information should be able to flow freely over networks, including the Internet, “regardless of political ideology or other...