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...Olivetti's move. In December 2002, a full year before the company collapsed, Joanna Speed, Merrill Lynch's food industry analyst in London, became the first big bank analyst to issue a "sell" recommendation on Parmalat stock; she found the accounts incomprehensible. Despite such misgivings, however, business continued as usual. Six months before the collapse, Kenneth Lewis, the chief executive of Bank of America, flew to Parma to pay a call on Tanzi. Ferraris recalls that the June 2003 meeting with Lewis was cordial. If the American had any concerns, he didn't raise them. "It was a marketing call...
...Crimson’s points, booting two field goals and adding the extra point on the team’s sole touchdown. An invaluable crutch on special teams for Harvard all year, he made his presence feel more keenly in the low-scoring affair that lacked the usual offesnsive fireworks...
Don’t miss Harvard Glee Club facing off against the Yale Glee Club in their annual pregame musical showdown. As usual, the glee clubs will be singing football tunes as well as others from their repertoire, so if you feel like some early celebrating, join Harvard schoolmates in supporting our school with song. $14 - $19, $7 - $9 seniors and students available online. Friday Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theater...
...sins” is his approach to the popular/religious music divide) while good singer-songwriters like Joseph Arthur and Pedro the Lion have been doing the same in indie music. If the folk and emo sensibilities of rap and indie-pop make these genres friendlier to religion than usual, these genres also tend to be more self-conscious, making the music itself better but making the audience harder to please at the same time...
Ashcroft will soon step out the door. But in the office it’s the usual day-to-day grind: planning meetings for the ministers of justice from seven other countries, writing a report on intellectual property covering everything from downloaded tunes to designer purses. She sometimes works late into the night and on weekends, but she doesn’t resent it, she says. “The honeymoon period lasted long...