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According to Sam M. Simon ’06, the communications director of the College Dems, the group has successfully enlisted one-third of all first-years through the Freshman Activities Fair and the dorm storm...
...companies during the Internet boom; to 18 months in prison; in New York City. He is appealing a May conviction for hindering a federal stock investigation involving Credit Suisse First Boston, but will be forced to begin serving prison time in late October while the appeal is pending. SENTENCED. SIMON MANN, 51, British former special forces soldier and supplier of security and military services; to seven years in prison; in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mann was arrested in March at Harare airport as he tried to take delivery of a $180,000 arms consignment, allegedly for a coup in Equatorial Guinea...
...talks to buy London 's Savoy Hotel for at least $360 million. Ian Schrager has FOR SALE signs up at two London sites, the swanky Sanderson and the St. Martins Lane Hotel. Stelios Haji-Ioannou's easyGroup is launching a chain of no-frills easyHotels in early 2005. And Simon Woodroffe - the man behind the YO! Sushi conveyor-belt eateries - is opening Yotel, cramming luxury into tiny, 10-sq-m rooms, inspired by Japan 's "capsule" hotels, for $135 a night. "It's budget chic," says Yotel exec Gerard Greene. "There are designer hotels everywhere, but not everyone can afford...
...report by PricewaterhouseCoopers predicts that the growth of paid digital-downloading sites will eventually lead to a turnaround in the slumping Asia-Pacific music market; by 2008, they expect online music sales to break $500 million, 8% of the total market. "The fear of piracy still exists," says Jon Simon, head of new media for Warner Music Asia-Pacific. "But I think that fear every day becomes more an opportunity than one of loathing." When that happens, all those cute iPods will be good for more than just looking good...
...most egregious celebration of the Games was by Swedish triple jumper Christian Olsson, whose oblivious victory lap was so lengthy that it interrupted the medal ceremony for the 1,500-m wheelchair race. Thanks for taking the pressure off, Christian. --With reporting by Jeff Chu, Sean Gregory, Alice Park, Simon Robinson and Jane Wulf/Athens