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...Given the high number of high-quality applicants, we decided to take advantage of that by slightly increasing the number of people admitted to the MBA program," said HBS spokesman James E. Aisner...
Leopold said that despite the increase in students, HBS will keep the number of sections for the incoming class at 10, with each expanding slightly. Upon entrance, each HBS student is placed into a section of roughly 90 classmates, with whom they attend all their first-year classes...
...Patpong, Bangkok's most notorious red-light district, go-go girls count their livelihood by the number of sex tourists they entertain. "Three inches, three minutes, 3,000 baht ($87)," laughs Goy, a 25-year-old bar girl. Last summer, she and her fellow pole dancers at the Camelot Castle entertained scores of men every night - first in the bar, where they earn a monthly salary, then at the customer's hotel, where they negotiate their own rates. But as cash-strapped travelers turn their backs on Thailand - tourism officials say revenues will plunge 35% this year - the ranks...
...places, the crisis has actually helped stimulate business. Ukraine's currency, the hryvnia, has lost about 35% of its value against the dollar and euro since the start of the downturn, a change that experts say is likely to boost the country's growing tourism sector and thereby the number of visitors willing to pay for a thrill. "The country is becoming a paradise for sex tourism before our eyes," says Yuri Lutsenko, Ukraine's interior minister, who worries about the trend. Police experts forecast that Ukraine's sex industry will more than double its revenues this year, generating...
...Bangkok, the concerns are more immediate. Pong, the female manager of Babylon Sauna, Bed and Breakfast, which depends on foreigners to stay afloat, frets that she may be forced to close. Babylon welcomed 800 visitors per day before the recession hit. That number now hovers around 500. "The entrance fee is already low, so dropping it won't make a difference," Pong says. So what's a sauna manager to do? "Pray...