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According to Byrne, HBS doesn't even offer an introductory accounting class that undergraduates might take--they assume that their students have picked up some accounting by the time they...
Vengeance against Chechens may be all Putin has to offer Russians this winter. Another disappointing harvest has forced Moscow to turn once again to the U.S. for a second massive shipment of food aid, following last year's request for $1 billion in grain and meat. Although corruption scandals have created a pall of suspicion over aid to Russia, U.S. officials report that food shipments have largely escaped corruption. One bit of good news for the Kremlin came from the IMF. Despite the suspicion that his organization's aid hasn't always escaped the web of corruption, IMF president Michel...
...Disney adapted to their language and customs, the French have taken the Magic Kingdom and its rodent monarch to heart. And on Wednesday Euro Disney announced that it will open a second theme park in 2002 adjacent to Disneyland Paris. "Les Studios Disney" will cost $650 million, and will offer behind-the-scenes looks at the movies. "Disney has succeeded in making a visit to the theme park an integral part of the Paris tourist itinerary," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "It?s now up there on the list of must-see sites with the Eiffel Tower...
Baby wants to grow up. Bell Atlantic, the northeastern offspring of the 1984 breakup of AT&T, has formally applied to the FCC for permission to take on its old Ma and offer long-distance service to its New York customers. The rationale dates back to the 1996 Telecommunications Act, which promised the Baby Bells their shot at one-stop telecom shopping - local, Internet and long-distance service all on one bill from one company - once long-distance carriers like AT&T had had their shot at breaking the Baby Bells' hold on local markets. Bell Atlantic claims that...
...They?re early," he says. "AT&T does have the cable networks to offer local phone service over those lines, but it?s a few years away from actually happening. And the lines the Bells have opened up to competition still carry such fees that a long-distance company that uses them can?t offer competitive rates, leaving Bell Atlantic?s home base of New York, for all practical purposes, a one-company market." Reality, however, doesn?t have lobbyists; Bell Atlantic?s have for years been bending over backward to convince New York regulators (on whose go-ahead...