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Cary B. Berkeley '93, Ming-Hui Fan '93, Elaine J. Goldenberg '93, Yen-Dong Ho '93, Amanda C. Holt '93, Junko Kaji '93, Judy C. Liu '93, Doris S. McDonald '93, Katherine E. O'Sullivan '93, Anna W. Poon '93, Gina M. Raimondo '93 and Katherine A. Tulenko '93 were selected on the basis of grade point average, recommendations and overall course work...
...normal country, currency is more than just a medium of exchange between a buyer and a seller: a dollar bill or a thousand-yen note is a contract between the individual and the state. The citizen does his part by producing and consuming, while the government ensures what economists call a stable standard of value -- a sound currency -- for the transactions of life...
...breathing nationalists in Lithuania and Georgia. I got the feeling that the city fathers of Vladivostok would have happily annexed their fair city and, better yet, the entire Maritime province of the U.S.S.R. to South Korea or Japan -- if they could only turn in their rubles for won or yen...
...earn big yen by exploiting the U.S.-Japan rivalry? A Japanese software manufacturer hopes to do it with Japan Bashing, a hot new computer game for all those obsessive nerds who lie awake worrying about the trade imbalance. While a TV newscaster intones actual news stories (e.g., the purchase of U.S. film studios by Sony and Matsushita), Japanese cars and computer chips are shown converging on a map of the U.S. Winged dollars at the top of the screen fly back toward Japan. Who wins? Flying hot dogs indicate an American victory; sushi signals a Japanese triumph. Then there...
...movie mainstream. "Someone else would have gone and made a house in the Bahamas and lived happily ever after," Merchant says. "But we didn't do that. We put the money into our next film." And so on and so on -- dollar by rupee by pound sterling by yen -- happily ever after...