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...Emory University in Atlanta. And people aren’t paying them to do well: “I’ve made some sacrifices, a few tenths of a point on my GPA,” Moran admits. But things are looking up for the fledgling Web site. As of last week, GradeFund claimed over 800 users, 34 of them with Harvard affiliations, according to Michael Kopko. GradeFund also scored its first corporate sponsor in ZooToo.com founder and president Richard Thompson. An entrepreneur himself, Thompson said that he does his best to support young people who act upon their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fund to Give Greenbacks for Grades | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...said that Megee registered the use of the Harvard name as early as 2001. And the company states that “Harvard” is a legal brand name issued by the Chinese government’s trademark office for its use. The company’s Web site highlights sections such as “Harvard in Beijing,” “Harvard’s History and Future,” and “Harvard’s Brand in China,” which all lead to pages with information about Megee...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chinese Company Rips Harvard Name | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...desperate chicks.Unperturbed, Chiappini sought to dazzle Bilotti with other charms of southeastern Massachusetts. Stop 1: PLYMOUTH ROCK, the birth canal of America. The rock was identified as the pilgrim’s first landing site—121 years after they landed and 24 miles away from the actual site. As an American, Bilotti of course felt a mystical pull to the rock, like a piece of tape stuck to another piece of tape. Yet bizarrely, the most significant monument in American history did not impress this philistine.Chiappini then took Bilotti to a charming local bistro, Papa Gino?...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Turkeys & Trifectas | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...week after 10 terrorists stunned Mumbai, tens of thousands of the city's residents descended on the main site of the attacks. They crowded the streets around the Gateway of India, the landmark arch the faces the historic Taj Mahal hotel, where gunmen had holed themselves up for three days. Amid the press of bodies were a few scattered pockets of space and light - either candle-lit shrines left by the public in vigil or camera crews surrounded by the vocal and vociferous crowd. They called for an inchoate assortment of things: the heads of bungling politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rally in Mumbai: "Remember 26-11!" | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...However, lost in the eulogies to those trapped within the Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi-Trident, are the 56 people shot on the same night at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a central rail station for the transiting working class. It was the highest death toll for a single site during the three days of chaos. Many of the dead there were laborers. "For whom is the [Taj Mahal hotel] iconic?" asks Gulan Kripalani, the executive director of the Mumbai-based NGO, Citizens For Peace. "My maid has lived in Mumbai all her life and she has never seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rally in Mumbai: "Remember 26-11!" | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

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