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...particular, over the past few months, both Google and Microsoft have started education sector initiatives aimed at signing universities to their new hosting services, customizing the look and feel of the service to fit each university’s needs and wishes. Microsoft’s "Windows Live @ Edu" has signed on almost 60 universities worldwide, and Google’s Gmail service is a success with consumers all over the world. In the next few weeks, fellow Ivy League school University of Pennsylvania will be choosing a vendor after a semester of consideration. We hope Harvard will follow suit...
...where Marion Hume talked to the new generation of freewheeling Istanbullus, to the Thomas Pink store in New York City, where Josh Tyrangiel discovered the comfort of custom-made shirts. Personally, I cannot live without Paris and, more specifically, the French children's-clothing store Bonpoint?possibly the luxury sector's smallest and most promising player...
...economic cycle of the country," says Dayani. "People are coming who have never seen a bank before. They are pulling their money from under the floorboards and we are putting it into circulation through loans." But the ADB's Fazil worries that the system is unstable: Afghanistan's banking sector is largely unregulated, and loan officers have little experience in assessing the risks of business lending. "If the private sector goes bankrupt, [Afghanistan's private banks] will go bankrupt," he says, "and the public, with all their 'safe' deposits, what will happen to them...
...educators in the United Kingdom. At Harvard, Tom started the successful Swipe for Darfur campaign and has launched CrimsonReading.org, an extraordinary website where Harvard students can save money by comparison shopping for their textbooks. Tom knows how to make things happen—his records in the private sector and here at Harvard prove...
...premier is his biggest albatross. Taking power on the cusp of a debilitating recession, Rae administered policies that alienated both sides of the political spectrum. His government borrowed to sustain a mounting deficit, and Rae won the enmity of his own NDP brethren with austere legislation freezing public-sector wages and forcing public servants to take an extra 10 days off each year without pay. Rae has attempted to shed his image as an inept manager, telling the Economic Club of Toronto early in the campaign that balanced budgets, competitive corporate taxes and lower individual income taxes are crucial...