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...surely loom as a social and criminal milestone to the U. S. historian of 1982, no one but foreign editors and a few vigilant U. S. patriots were saying or doing much about it. Among the vigilant patriots were some American Legionaries in California who stirred Connecticut's Hiram Bingham to suggest on the floor of the Senate last week that the kidnapping of the country's most celebrated baby was a colossal plot to get the country's most celebrated criminal, Alphonse Capone, out of jail in Chicago...
...giant WorldCom received a $2.65 billion payout from Citigroup. So far, Parmalat's other creditors are cheered by Bondi's hardball tactics. "The more value there is in the estate - for any reason - the better it is for us," says Attorney Evan D. Flaschen of the U.S. law firm Bingham McCutchen, who represents about 100 institutions including insurers and pension funds that together hold about $2 billion of Parmalat bonds. But Bondi needs Parmalat's big creditors - of whom the banks are the biggest - to approve his restructuring plan by the end of this year. Critically, that involves persuading them...
...last year Lilly ran an experiment in which about 50 employees involved in drug development--chemists, biologists, project managers--traded six mock drug candidates through an internal market. "We wanted to look at the way scattered bits of information are processed in the course of drug development," says Alpheus Bingham, vice president for Lilly Research Laboratories strategy. The market brought together all the information, from toxicology reports to clinical results, and correctly predicted the three most successful drugs...
...spread that wouldn't show if you simply asked, Will this drug succeed? "When we start trading stock, and I try buying your stock cheaper and cheaper, it forces us to a way of agreeing that never really occurs in any other kind of conversation," says Bingham. "That is the power of the market...
...Bureau of Study Counsel also offers one-on-one tutoring with undergraduates, a service which, according to Assistant Director Sarah L. Bingham ‘83-’88, “allows a sense of a two-person study group,” and “takes away a lot of the stigma” associated with getting help. During the 2002-2003 academic year, there were 1,055 requests for tutoring in 201 different courses, which added up to 5,709 hours of peer tutoring in total. The Writing Center and the Math Help center...