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...around. The talent shortage was so acute that banks reportedly were hiring local hairdressers and car salesmen and turning them into private bankers. They were also stealing employees from rival banks. "There were a lot of complaints to the Monetary Authority of Singapore about poaching," says Annie Wee, a former private banker with Credit Agricole Indosuez in Singapore. "Clients began to complain...
...financial black arts such as macroeconomics and quantitative analysis, the one-year course teaches students "soft skills" needed to forge relationships with demanding clients, including cross-cultural etiquette tips. "All the bankers want hard-charging types, but our successful students are more low-key and soft with people," says Wee, who today is CEO of the Wealth Management Institute, a government-backed educational organization that oversees the SMU program. That's why students are taught, for example, that "if you go to a Chinese birthday party, you don't wear black," says Wee, or that "Thais don't like...
...mass market. And indeed, Segway is beginning to do something like that. It has developed heavy duty carriers called Robotic Mobility Platforms that it is pitching to the military. It will also be putting its Smart Motion technology in robotic toys it is developing with the toymaker Wow Wee...
...with a few hundred students or less may be daunting to some; if your idea of college is lots of keggers and skeezy nights you can't tell your parents about, you may want a bit more anonymity. But for those looking for four years of close-knit community, wee colleges come in many flavors. The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (68 students) in Merrimack, N.H., offers a rigorous Catholic education. The College of the Atlantic (278 students) in Bar Harbor, Maine, has an additional intimacy built into its curriculum, because all students share the same crunchy major, human...
...forensic-imaging specialists; and declarations of authenticity from famous friends like Penélope Cruz and Jada Pinkett Smith, who told a reporter that Suri is "gorgeous, with a head full of black, beautiful hair." Rumors are swirling that someone has actually taken the first authorized photos of the wee bairn--not just any photographer, of course, but Vanity Fair's resident portraitist Annie Leibowitz. (Reps for Cruise and Vanity Fair refused comment.) TIME can exclusively report exactly what she looks like: a baby...