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...Plenty of foreign firms have learned that the hard way. One of their main concerns is government meddling?a practice that Carl Thayer, a political professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy, calls "kicking the foreigner in the shin and demanding compensation." In a recent instance, Dutch bank ABN AMRO was accused by authorities of illegal foreign-exchange trades with state-owned Incombank, costing the latter $5.4 million. The Vietnamese bank is demanding that ABN AMRO repay the losses?even though they were incurred by an Incombank employee. ABN AMRO says it has done nothing wrong. Incombank won't comment...
...While not the sexiest location, vacant classrooms beneath Sanders Theatre should be used for lunchtime seating. If that is insufficient for the number of diners, the Freshman Dean’s Office should open the newly renovated freshman common rooms—especially in nearby dorms like Holworthy, Thayer, and Canaday—to upperclassmen during lunch hours. These spaces should be sufficiently large to allow the lunchtime masses to rest their feet for a brief moment...
...children of whom Mr. Thayer speaks, Dylan and Tuscany, are entertaining, but a bit flat. Dylan is a drugged out 17-year-old who has no motivation to do anything but go to clubs, chat on Instant Messenger and sleep. He certainly doesn’t care about the SAT, though he has an amusing tendency of incorporating Harriet Tubman into every essay. Dylan’s sister Tuscany is a 15-year-old Lolita. She easily seduces older men and pretends not to care about school, though underneath the pink sparkly exterior, she is actually interested in learning...
While spitting out lists of SAT words and math tricks is easy as pi for Noah, cultivating relationships with his students is more difficult. For Dylan and Tuscany, being popular is as easy as stealing prescription drugs from their stereotypically absent and aloof mother, Dr. Thayer. “In Dylan’s case coolness is an end in itself. But in Noah’s case, coolness means financial solvency.” The better he is ranked by his students, the more Noah is paid by his agency...
...Noah constantly struggles with the distinction between friend and student. In his dark past, Noah once offered to take the SAT for a particularly dear student, and though she demurred, the memory of the offer haunts Noah’s thoughts and current job prospects (Dr. Thayer is aware of Noah’s offer to take the SAT, and often uses it as a source of black mail...