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...there's an imposing Victorian town house that has an air of the Empire about it, even though its owners do not. The house - which has eight bedrooms and six bathrooms spread over six floors, an elevator and a garden - belongs to a Swiss family who, according to Tom Tangney, estate agent for realtor Knight Frank, make their money in finance. Tired of paying the upkeep on a place they hardly use, they've put it on the market for $18.5 million. And at that price, "I expect the buyer will also be non-British," says Tangney...
Lipton and Rocco, along with college-age bandmates Jack Tangney, Jack Donoghue, and Pete McGaughey who do not currently go to school, are thrilled at the prospects of being considered for the award. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...There's a camaraderie that develops somewhat like the army, but it's a positive experience," says Tangney, explaining that the participants develop "a pretty close core--especially among members of the can groups because they live together." For Tangney, both "the rigor of the content and the relationship of the people to each other" made the program special. Despite the rigor, the AMP was still fun because it created a setting where "people with real world experience were getting back into an academic setting," able to study how the business world should ideally work and compare it with knowledge...
Having a large foreign contingent leads to "a lot of diverse points of view," says Tangney. For example, Perry says that his study of "corporate ethics took on a totally different perspective" when he discussed the isssues with classmates from South Africa...
...Tangney the case study method did not address specific problems he deals with on the job, but instead helped him to develop "a frame of reference of how to approach issues...