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...offers of help also came from judges, politicians, diplomats, colleagues and ordinary Joes. And on Monday at noon, traffic was blocked for five minutes in all of Serbia's major towns and cities as a symbolic gesture against the attack. So the grenades may have served as a wake-up call to Serbia to renounce violence and stop its slide toward the ugly past. Maybe this time, it will stay awake...
This trip from private equity to public conglomerate and back wasn't pointless. According to company calculations, if you count every spinoff and asset sale--plus a $2.8 billion shareholder lawsuit payout in the wake of the CUC mess--a dollar invested in HFS when it went public in 1992 would be worth more than $14 now--a 22% annual return, or more than double the performance of the S&P 500. Which means Silverman is probably worth listening to on one of the great questions of our day: Is it better for a company to be traded...
This change would come in the wake of MBB’s establishment of its own secondary field outside of any department...
While most other Ivy League universities issued letters of condolence to their communities in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday, Harvard’s top administrators have remained largely silent and left the job of consoling students to the undergraduate Houses...
Stuart Heiser, a spokesman for the Council of Graduate Schools, said the increasing efforts of other countries to recruit international students should serve as a wake-up call for U.S. schools. “Just in the last six months a number of countries have announced multimillion-dollar marketing campaigns to attract international students,” Heiser said, citing France, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom...