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...aspiring to go to graduate school, the more personalized education offered at small schools can often provide the best preparation. Pomona College sent a higher percentage of its students to Harvard Law in 2005 than Brown or Duke. The academic might of these less fabled colleges was never a secret, but it's becoming more appreciated than ever before. "Most of the good, small schools were church related to begin with, and it was bad form to beat your chest and brag," Pope says...
...tableware manufacturer Arc International, www.arc-international.com, has developed a handblown crystal that it says is hard enough to be banged vigorously and repeatedly on a table or floor without breaking. That's not the only advantage of the new material, which Arc has dubbed Kwarx (the formula is a trade secret). The color of wine is said to be more faithfully perceived because of Kwarx's perfect neutrality on the chromatic scale, and the material has been used in a new range of Arc wineglasses called Open Up - a reference to their ability to "open up" the aroma of wines being...
...Last year, Asia's HNWIs were worth a total of $7.6 trillion, according to Merrill Lynch and Capgemini. That large number belies popular misconceptions about the private-banking industry. To the uninitiated, private banking is an exclusive little world of secret Swiss bank accounts and starchy "wealth advisers" plotting corporate takeovers and tax dodges with their superwealthy clients over lobster and Ch?teau Margaux. While the banks do offer many perks, it is no longer such a rarefied niche market. For many financial institutions, private banking is increasingly crucial to the bottom line. For example, 46% of Credit Suisse's pretax...
...having so-and-so for lunch," he'd say. "I think you'll enjoy him." Sometimes we wouldn't, but Len's boundless energy and appetite for fun gave him the capacity to enjoy almost anyone and anything. He would find the secret amusing corner of the most difficult personality; he roared with laughter at books with odd titles-his collection began with a volume called Altar Linen: Its Care and Use, although his favorites were Underwater Sport on a Small Income; Dumps, A Plain Girl; and that handy cookbook Be Bold With Bananas...
...deep, ancient faith, one that he says has carried many a Christian through persecution. "Why don't I think it will be a problem? Because as time goes on, the government will get to know the Christian spirit and realize that God exists." He smiles with the secret knowledge of a true believer. "And then," he says, "they will become Christians...