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...issue was a ruse whereby Leeson reconciled his year-end accounts in 1994. Both the London and Singapore reports agree that Leeson fabricated a $79 million credit from Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, a New York City-based securities trader, to offset his losses. When Barings' external auditors questioned the entry, Leeson forged faxes from Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, Citibank and one of his superiors in London to show that the money had indeed been paid to Barings. The auditors accepted Leeson's explanation although they failed to notice the words "from Nick and Lisa" printed...
Even the respected magazine The Economist noted this shift from universities to think-tanks in its 1993 year-end issue...
Eugene Koh '97 is Remote Staff Manager, Media Services, at America Online, Inc. He admits that this year-end column is a bit self-serving since he is working in online product development over the summer. But he is genuinely interested n readers' suggestions on how to "package the Internet," and is eager to discuss these issues throughout the summer by e-mail at ekoh@fas.harvard.edu...
Jones' concert, as he calls it, opened a new front in the continuing culture wars. In the year-end issue of the New Yorker, Croce wrote a piece, titled Discussing the Undiscussable, in which she declared that she would not review Still/Here-would not even see it-because she considered the show beyond the reach of criticism: "The cast members of Still/Here-the sick people whom Jones has signed up-have no choice other than to be sick." By presenting them on videotape, she reasoned, the choreographer has "crossed the line between theatre and reality. I can't review someone I feel...
...College Fund reflects an alumni participation rate of 52.9 percent, another record for the fund, according to a special edition of The Yard that detailed the fund's year-end report...