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...much as the bags themselves. "Some clients want to look like footballers' wives, but others are smart businesswomen who want to carry something special into the boardroom," says Jo Trafford, who founded the service with her policeman husband in July. Since then, Trafford has bought nearly $200,000 worth of bags, sourced directly from fashion capitals such as Paris, Milan and New York City. The ever-expanding collection reflects client requests and takes inspiration from Hollywood. Recent additions include the Gucci Indy, which Mischa Barton made last summer's It bag, and five Bow Bags by Los Angeles designer Adonia...
...contributors to Harvard’s many fund-raising appeals over the years, we have taken pride in the University’s standing as the best endowed institution of higher learning in the world, with a reported net worth of $36 billion dollars. We would expect that this wealth frees the University, and certainly the College at its core, from the need to pander to the prevailing political moods in the USA and enables it to fulfill its calling as one of the more active participants of the global pluralistic society...
...Americans are probably familiar with Forex, the international exchange market where the only thing traded is money. It is open 24 hours a day, five days a week, and a place where all the trades are done electronically. There is no central trading floor. Yet, at roughly $1.9 trillion worth of trades per day, it is by far the largest financial market in the world...
...less than a week, Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will travel to Oslo to collect their Nobel Prize for their efforts to build awareness of, and combat climate change. Though they will collect a prize worth well over a million US dollars, we could imagine no better present that the United States government could give them than the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, the decade-old international treaty designed to limit emissions and pollution that cause global warming. Ironically, the United States has already signed the Kyoto Protocol (under the Clinton administration) but foregone...
...however, that the President has increasingly overridden Cheney and offers a nuanced view of the relationship. "There's an almost temperamental or dispositional question here. You see it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The President said, 'I understand there are risks, but I think that this is a shot worth taking.' The Vice President would probably emphasize the risks more, and I think that's just the person...