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...INFAMOUS, BUT ONE FAMILY MEMBER IS trying to give it a different odor. Osama's older half brother (they share the same father) has just put his name on a new perfume, a jasmine-heavy scent dubbed Yeslam. Bin Ladin (his spelling), a resident of Geneva who has dual Swiss-Saudi citizenship, spoke with TIME's Scott MacLeod in Paris...
...Swiss-born entrepreneur has given $25 million to the Ph.D. program at Harvard Business School (HBS), marking the largest single donation toward business doctoral education ever...
Written by Swiss playwright Friedrich Durrenmatt during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the play takes place in a world where “technology and information can end everything in a single moment...
...interventionist. Sarkozy brokered the €2 billion state bailout of engineering giant Alstom, angering E.U. members who called it an unfair protectionist subsidy. He also coerced Franco-German pharmaceutical giant Aventis into merging with French competitor Sanofi-Synthelabo, neither of which is state-owned, to thwart takeover plans by Swiss rival Novartis. "I'm conservative, liberal-inclined and I believe in market economics," Sarkozy says. "But when an issue lands on my desk, I don't spend time wondering what [David] Ricardo, Adam Smith or [Friedrich] Hayek would have done. Ideologies have been replaced by principles of realism and pragmatism...
...actually a critical component of the company’s cunning back-to-school sales strategy: a temporary relocation of super-employees to Radio Shacks near college campuses. Two, including Joe, were assigned to the Harvard Square location. This elite squad of finely tuned selling machines—the Swiss Army of customer sales—fights to the death for efficiency, revenue and commissions during the high-traffic month of September...