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...myself, rejecting the eastern seaboard internship circuit for one summer isn’t terribly revolutionary in the grand scheme of things, and it’s true that the concept of “real world experience” smacks of a little condescension. But leaving Cambridge for a job wandering around in drug-vending coffeeshops and smartshops and wading through brothels and sex shows—it beat my summers chained to the computer. To drink absinthe, behave brazenly and rudely to strangers in bars; to play mindgames with thieving landlords; to hop trains and planes solo...
...this week saying, among other things, that "The United States is now on notice that it is effectively serving as a 'fence' for stolen property." Verizon claims that MCI was able to outbid its rivals for government contracts in part because it had robbed other carriers through the rerouting scheme...
...comes at the end of a week of bad news for MCI. First came word that the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan was probing the company's creative routing of calls to minimize access fees it had to pay to local carriers. In the so-called Canadian Gateway scheme, MCI allegedly routed domestic long-distance calls that its customers placed to certain locations in the U.S. - where local carriers charged high access fees - through Canada and back to rival carrier AT&T, which then had to pay the access charges. Then came the announcement of another investigation...
...project's curator, calls it the world's first "obligatory museum" - if you ride the No. 1 line, you can't miss it. Still, city officials are perhaps proudest of the brushstrokes that have not shown up. Barely a trace of graffiti or vandalism has been registered since the scheme began. "Through this project, Neapolitans are showing a huge amount of pride," says Giovanna Torcia, spokeswoman for the city's subway authority. "If we educate people about beauty, they want to keep things beautiful...
...Yukos dismisses as absurd the idea that Khodorkovsky was out to take over the Duma, but admits that he funds SPS and Yabloko as a private individual. The firm denies that Khodorkovsky has financed the Communist Party. The scheme, if it existed, was farfetched, given the modest showing of SPS and Yabloko in recent years and the Communists' tendency to self-destruct. But if the alleged plan had worked, Khodorkovsky would have become extremely powerful. Anyway, it came at a delicate time for Kremlin strategists: their party, Unity, is showing signs of coming apart at the seams. Khodorkovsky's apparent...