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...DIED. CLEMENTINA ANGELA LEITAO HO, 80, first wife of Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho; in Hong Kong. Leitao, a Portuguese national and daughter of a prominent Macanese businessman, was credited with helping Ho secure an exclusive casino franchise in 1962 from Macau's Portuguese colonial government. The casino monopoly was the foundation for Ho's estimated $1.4 billion fortune...
...CHUNG: For me, one of the defining scenes of cinema is in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, when a middle-aged Winters begins rabidly beating James Mason, her vacant, utterly expressionless face unambiguously channeling her fiery rage upon learning of her husband’s affair with her daughter. But I digress...
...Tomorrow I’m going to hear [economist] Stanley Fischer speak at Adams,” Saha said. “When would I have had the opportunity to do that at Wellesley...
Comcast's gibes sound a lot like the criticisms flowing from shareholders who have grown irate over Eisner's stewardship. He has been contending with a shareholder uprising led by ex-board members Roy Disney and his partner, Stanley Gold. The duo quit the company last fall, fed up with Eisner's alleged mismanagement, and are trying to persuade shareholders not to re-elect him at the company's annual meeting on March 3. Eisner suffered a body blow when Steve Jobs, Pixar Animation Studio's boss, decided not to renew a co-production and distribution agreement after 10 months...
...developers, all highly leveraged. At the same time, unsold properties have increased fourfold over the past four years, totaling 2,475 million sq. ft. in 2002. "The laws of property cycles have not been repealed for China," says Peter Churchouse, who follows property trends in China for Morgan Stanley. "Eventually, the construction companies and the banks that backed them are going to get creamed...