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...Paul Burgess, the head of London leasing for British Land, the company behind Broadgate Tower, isn't worried. "We're coming to market at the optimum time," he says, as he prepares to sign up some of the legions of investment bankers, corporate lawyers and fund managers that make the City their home. The reason he's bullish? Demand for office space is tied to the health of London's financial-services sector and, by many measures, the City has never been fitter. The U.K. financial sector contributed 3.5% of Britain's gdp in 2005, a leap from...
After months of searing criticism over a book comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore on Jan. 23. The Nobel Peace Prize winner signed copies of “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid” at the Harvard Coop while in town for a highly anticipated speech at Brandeis University. Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said he had ordered 1,600 copies of “Palestine” for the store. The hundreds...
...overall.Harvard found itself in a win-win situation in the doubles final, as junior Ashwin Kumar and freshman Michael Hayes faced off against Nguyen and junior Kieran Burke.Kumar and Hayes came out on top, 8-6, to win the title.“That’s a good sign that we had both of the finalists,” Valkin said. “Nguyen and Burke had never played together before. [Kumar and Hayes] make a great team together.”Fish had praise for Hayes, and also noted that the rookie is still improving...
...Dayton and Faris didn't get nominated, and that's a bad sign for Sunshine's Best Picture chances. Oscar, you see, was an auteurist long before the French critics of Cahiers du Cinema proclaimed that the director was the author of his films. The winner of the Best Director statuette has made film named Best Picture 76% of the time - 53 of the 70 possible years - since 1937, when the Academy standardized the category with five nominations...
...China and the company aims to make the country its biggest market after the U.S., so they were ripe for the plucking); and various wangchong - networms, as they are known - made knee-jerk nationalist comments. In fact, the outlet, a tiny, hole-in-the-wall store with no sign outside, has been serving its signature overpriced, coffee-flavored milk to tourists for no less than six years. So why the sudden interest in the issue? Trotting out this lame duck (can ducks trot?) has certainly sparked a rush of internet traffic to Rui's blog, and gotten his post onto...