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Continuing a major shift in Harvard policy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) officials confirmed last week that they are assembling a program to teach undergraduates about high-tech entrepreneurship and help students start their own businesses while still in school...
...billion of Lloyd's North American reserves were on deposit. Paul Cohen, a supervising examiner for the New York State insurance department, declared in 1995 that the reserves were "seriously deficient" and "unlikely to cover all losses" at Lloyd's. Cohen accused Citibank of permitting Lloyd's to shift assets from the accounts of Names who owed nothing to pay the obligations of those Names who did--in violation of the Names' contracts with Lloyd's and trust agreements with Citibank. Citibank declined comment, citing pending litigation...
...teenage years, as formerly defined, were a time for people to get away with things, to make mistakes and not really have to pay for them. The legal system has changed all that by trying kids as adults for serious crimes. And teenagers have contributed to this shift by committing so many of them--or at least so many horrific ones. In the future, however, even minor infractions once considered normal high jinks will draw severe reactions from the authorities. In 1999, brawling at a football game could get a kid expelled from school for years; in 2025, a spitball...
...children? The real paradigm shift will come when we stop trying to base our entire society on the wavering sexual connection between individuals. Romantic love ebbs and surges unaccountably; it's the bond between parents and children that has to remain rocklike year after year. Putting children first would mean that adults would make a contract--not to live together or sleep together but to take joint responsibility for a child or an elderly adult. Some of these arrangements will look very much like today's marriages, with a heterosexual couple undertaking the care of their biological children. Others will...
...same, architecture may be on the verge of the greatest style shift since the end of World War II, when the glass and steel towers of bare-bones Modernism shouldered everything else to the margins. A very different future is visible today in a small outburst of buildings that repudiate the very notion of upright walls. Bellied-out sides, canted planes, solid walls that look like fluttering strips of ribbon, blade-edged triangular outcroppings and brassy materials that shimmer like something Cher would wear to the Grammys--what's under way here is a rethinking of space and form...