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...selection process continues for the case, dial and other components, all the way to the choice of packaging. A click on the "submit" button sends the order and the watch is assembled. Prices range from $20 to $130 and all watches come with a 10-year warranty and a "Swiss-made" label. There is a minimum purchase of 10 watches, but starting this summer Domino will begin taking single orders...
...corruption conviction. The former prime minister's elation hasn't faded. "I'm absolutely thrilled," she says. "Now I am free of any stain." When reminded that the verdict is not a wholesale exoneration, but rather an order to set aside her conviction for taking kickbacks from a Swiss firm and proceed with a retrial and that charges remain pending against her, Bhutto is dismissive. "Anyone can make a charge. All this is a plot to deny my leadership to the people of Pakistan." She was routed at the polls when she last stood for election...
...that was then, and this is now,” you say? Then take a look at the Swiss. No one can deny that Switzerland is a thoroughly modern country with a high standard of living. Yet, in Switzerland, less than 25 percent of young people go to high school or college. In fact, you will find that many of the top managers of the businesses for which they are known, never went to high school. Rather, they were apprenticed into their profession at the age of 16. The next three years are spent half in on the job training...
...best part of the Swiss system is that it is student, parent and business driven. No bureaucrat armed with a state mandated aptitude test makes these decisions for them. What better way to encourage parental involvement; let the parents and students decide for themselves. I agree with Ross G. Douthat ’02 that it will never happen. But I can dream, can?...
...commission recommended paying reparations to survivors. It looked to precedents like the Civil Rights Acts of 1988, which paid $20,000 to Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II. It also cited the settlement of claims of Holocaust survivors from Swiss banks, which had retained some money deposited before the war by the survivors’ families, and the $2 million set aside by the Florida legislature for survivors of the 1923 attack on Rosewood, a black town burned during a week of rioting. There are other precedents. Families of victims of the East St. Louis riot...