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...bankers, the Chair of the Executive Committee of Citigroup, Robert E. Rubin ’60, to join their ranks. Although Winokur’s resignation was meant to reduce the Harvard Corporation’s connection to Enron, no one should be misled by this virtually meaningless swap...
...Bank and Gaza could govern in coalition with the likes of Oslo architect and arch-dove Shimon Peres. Equally outlandish, perhaps, was the idea that a man so out of step with the prevailing drift in U.S. policy to settle the Middle East conflict via a land-for-peace swap would manage to turn the White House to his way of thinking. But a week ago, Sharon rolled the troops into the West Bank with nary a peep out of Peres and the White House - except to draw the line at killing or exiling Yasser Arafat...
...relationships,” he says. “Normally, you see the person, pass a physical judgment, and then you decide whether or not to get to know them.” But online, Pollock says, “You get to know them first and eventually you swap pictures. People usually don’t get into relationships until they have a picture.” Though Lillian had received a snapshot of her Internet beau, she claims it bore little resemblance to the real...
...that they would be satisfied with whichever item they end up with. The item is written on a slip of paper and tossed into a hat. Each person then chooses a slip of paper, "winning" the designated item--which can then be traded for another if someone else will swap. Heirs are free to say no to trades by agreeing in advance that they will accept whatever they have selected from...
Laura D'Andrea Tyson didn't accept her new job because of the weather. After all, who'd swap sunny California for bleak Britain? Instead, Tyson - who was U.S. President Bill Clinton's chief economic adviser from 1993 to 1996 - carefully weighed the pluses and minuses of a move from the dean's office at the University of California's Haas School of Business to the London Business School. "Weather isn't everything," says Tyson, who concluded that London is the place to be - a center for culture, commerce, the arts, business and world trade. Her task: to lead...