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...country's second-largest bank, Credit Suisse, got the biggest public slap. Together with two subsidiaries, Bank Hofmann and Bank Leu, Credit Suisse accepted funds totaling $214 million from two of Abacha's sons and failed to check if its customers were prominent political figures, the banking commission said. The other three major offenders were UBP Union Bancaire Privée and the Swiss subsidiaries of France's Crédit Agricole Indosuez and Germany?s M.M. Warburg...
...then the biennial Interhash would be the Olympics of hashing. Taking place Sept. 27-29 in Goa, India, this event promises lots of drinking, great food, good company and the traditional Hash House Harrier cure for a brutal hangover: another run. More than 3,500 participants are expected to slap down $250 each to join the weekend bash. With some 60,000 registered alcoholics in Goa, according to the event organizers, the former Portuguese colony is a natural for hashers. Go to www.goa2002.com for more information...
...easy to put out an eye, to blind someone," says Glenn Shwaery, director of the Nonlethal Technology Innovation Center. "How do you redesign a projectile to avoid that?" The answer is, with softer, flatter bullets, beanbags and sponges that spread out the impact and hit like an open-handed slap from Andre the Giant. Shwaery's team is looking into an even more radical solution: "tunable" bullets that can be adjusted in the field to be harder or softer as the situation warrants. "We're talking about dialing in the penetrating power," he says. "It's the difference between...
Teaching at Summerbridge has been a slap in the face (picture it from an 11-year-old with a chalk-filled eraser in his hand). I’m struck daily by the difficulties of teaching, of disciplining students, of being white in a mostly minority group. But seeing what school is like with girls and boys in the same classroom makes me glad that I didn’t experience it until college...
...Blur as sotong responses like mine won't dampen Wong's zeal for promoting good English. He dislikes Singlish because he thinks it's crude. "If my son came back from school and told my wife that she was talking cock," he says, "I would slap him." He would have to. Otherwise, how would Cambridge-educated Wong's son learn to jiat gentang...