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Longy School of Music. Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. 876-0956, ext. 120. Benefit concert to aid the children, teachers and administration of Kobekko Land, a children's music school and the music department of Kobe Women's College, both severely damaged in the recent Kobe earthquake on Sat., March...
Still, in December 1994 and early January 1995, the Nikkei 225 seemed headed for 19,000. On the morning of Jan. 17, 1995, however, an earthquake measuring 7.2 devastated the Japanese city of Kobe-and the erstwhile stable Nikkei index plummeted more than 7% in a week. Despite that, over the next three weeks Leeson bought thousands more contracts betting that the Nikkei would stabilize at 19,000. "He was going for the big kill," says the director of one trading house in Singapore. A Japanese trading executive remembers wondering what Barings was doing. "We figured that it is such...
...companies that provide commercial, as opposed to academic, access to the Net. While language remains a barrier--English dominates the Internet--Japanese students around the world are using the Net to chat in a mixture of Japanese and English that their parents would never understand. Shortly after the Kobe quake, Tomoji Ohta, a college student whose parents' home had collapsed, approached TIME reporters on the rubble-strewn streets with an urgent request: ``Please get on the Internet and notify the Baker Street Irregulars that all our members in Kobe are all right.'' Sherlock Holmes fans around the world were reassured...
...proud of the people in Kobe for their thoughtfulness and discipline. And I was pleased with the merchants who voluntarily helped supervise the prices, selling goods at cheaper than normal prices when they could have charged more. I am ashamed of the Japanese government, which treasures procedures and systems so much that it delayed in reacting to the calamity. I am disgusted with Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, who was heartless and malevolent in cursing the more than 5,000 people who were killed in the quake, saying, ``This is certainly a divine punishment. We were expecting it, and we asked...
...hope after the next inevitable ``big one'' we won't be saying ``Shoganai'' but ``Gambarimashita'' (We did our best). Nik Hall Miyagi, Japan As a resident of Kobe, I thank God that my family is safe. But as time passes, my anger grows. The earthquake is not anyone's fault, but the high number of deaths could have been avoided. Before 6 a.m. on the day of the quake, everything shook, and although my family was fine, I could see parts of Kobe were on fire. I was sure the city would be getting immediate help. But the Japanese defense...