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...Direct was always meant to be different. Ten years ago, the Dutch financial-services conglomerate ING went to Canada to see whether a bank with no branches, no ATMs and no checkbooks could survive. ING had its home market locked up and was looking to expand around the world. But buying or building enough branches to break into mature markets like the U.S. would be hugely expensive. So the company decided to run an experiment, communicating with customers only by phone, mail and the Internet. With the money saved, ING Direct could offer a significantly higher interest rate on savings...
...special, has always sought new national challenges in order to "form a more perfect union." It is a frontier impulse firmly rooted in the American DNA, subtly essential to the nation's growth. The mere "pursuit of happiness" can never be enough; we must also go to the moon. Ten years ago, the political writer David Brooks decided that there was a need for "national greatness," for larger national goals, but as a conservative, he had trouble responding to a very basic question: What are those goals? "It almost doesn't matter what great task government sets for itself...
Harvard’s freshman eight had no such bad luck, however, starting the day well and bringing the New London Cup back to Newell with a ten-second, open-water...
...third varsity boat also raced and won by a ten-second margin...
...Faculty’s governing board rejected a proposal to move fall exams to December, with professors saying they were unconvinced that such a move would benefit them. Ten years later, a University-wide committee proposed changing the calendar in a similar way—but the plan was tabled pending the end of the curricular review...