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...around the table, shaking hands and kissing cheeks. Like Superman turning into Clark Kent, the earnest political operative took over. Before the shy types could mumble about a brief previous encounter, he set them at ease, reciting their names and the circumstances of their last meeting: "Of course! The forum in Boston!" With his glad-handing complete, Bono?founder, spokesman and chief benefactor of DATA, a nonprofit, debt-relief advocacy group?sat down at the edge of the table and, at 1 a.m., recounted the details of his early-morning session with 30 Republican Congressmen. "I am not willing...
Giscard recognizes the challenge. In a 40-minute speech that modulated from French to English to German and back to French, he conjured up the difficulties of steering the Convention past "the yawning abyss of failure" and through "the narrow portal of success." Rather than a forum for diverging opinions, he called for the Convention "to become the melting pot in which, month by month, a common approach is worked out." Only if that "Convention spirit" is maintained will Giscard arrive at a "broad consensus on a single proposal" with enough force to prevail once the Convention is over...
...handsets destined for different parts of the world. Would disabling all stolen IMEI numbers be such a bad idea? "Imagine you have 100 phones with the same IMEI, and you cut them all off," says Jack Wraith, a spokes-man for the U.K.'s Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum. "One person will complain, and 99 criminals will shrug and say, 'Well, I had a good time while it lasted...
Since taking charge in London, Tyson has been on the go. Recently back from the World Economic Forum in New York, she will continue to travel, raising the L.B.S. profile and seeking "sustainable ways of funding growth" at the school. "While it is in the top 10," Tyson says, "it is up against strong international competition." Among other strategies, she plans to build on a unique "global executive m.b.a." program with New York's Columbia Business School, nurture links with the new Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and foster ties with other disciplines within the University of London...
Isaac J. Weiler ’02 is an Afro-American Studies concentrator affiliated with Pforzhiemer House. He is president of the Black Men’s Forum...