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Furthermore, many "invisible" elements of the banking system function much more efficiently in Canada than in the U.S. The payments systems, that labyrinthine set of collection depots, clearing houses and funds transfer networks that enable such mundane financial instruments as personal checks and automatic payroll deposit tend to run much more smoothly. For example, a check written by a New Yorker for a purchase in a store in Los Angeles store with its accounts in a Californian bank can take up to four days to clear. In contrast, a check written in Vancouver on a bank account in Halifax...
...have law, ethics will arise to take its place, and if you have law, ethics will tend to whither," John Perry Barlow says, as he explains his philosophy within the undefined world of Cyberspace...
Dealmakers like Weill insist that won't be a problem. And he may be right for a different reason: the history of megamergers is that they tend not to work as planned. "When you create these oversize companies, they become vulnerable by definition," says Porter Bibb, a senior investment banker at Ladenburg Thalmann. Big firms can't react to small opportunities, so new businesses pop up to fill the void. Some inevitably grow enough to challenge the giants. Indeed, every merger phase in the U.S. in the past 30 years has been followed by a period of divestitures as companies...
...this is not Majorca, the all-too-famous Mediterranean resort. It is Minorca, the lesser-known jewel of the Balearic Islands. Its attractions tend to be subtler but are often deeper. Over 4,000 years of its inhabited history, Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British have come and left their various imprints on Minorcan life, enriching its language and architecture. More than a beach vacation, Minorca is a 270-sq.-mi. museum, filled with ancient treasures. As many as 1,000 archaeological sites dot the countryside. Most of the monuments--including Bronze Age structures and early Christian basilicas...
...Asians are more likely than blacks to take commercial courses designed to prepare students for the LSAT. Though the disparity is slight, experts point to an even more significant test-prep gap: while whites take high-end, intensive courses offered by Kaplan Educational Centers and the Princeton Review, minorities tend to settle for cheaper, weekend crash courses. The reasons vary from lack of familiarity with the fancy courses (kids who did not use them for the SAT don't think of trying them for the LSAT) to affordability (the better programs run close to $1,000). But the difference...