The U.S. may be in an unemployment crisis, but the students at Harvard Business School aren’t too worried about their job prospects, says the school’s dean, Nitin Nohria. About 95% of last year’s graduating class had job offers by early September, according to the school. Still, Mr. Nohria says keeping students at the nation’s top [...]
Samsung Presses Ahead On Android
Samsung Electronics Co. has shrugged off early court losses in patent disputes with Apple Inc., apparently confident that it will be able to navigate around them. The South Korean company, whose fast-rising smartphone business is poised to overtake Apple in unit sales this quarter, on Thursday introduced several new phones and tablet computers based on [...]
Hundred Years of Solitude 25 °, Lost’s midnight aka Dior
Cien años de soledad Gabriel García Márquez Días después, de un modo intempestivo, la mujer lo llamó a su casa, donde estaba sola con su madre, y lo hizo entrar en el dormitorio con el pretexto de enseñarle un truco de barajas. Entonces lo tocó con tanta libertad que él sufrió una desilusión después del [...]
WTO To Hit China Over Export Limits
The World Trade Organization is set Tuesday to condemn China for limiting its exports of major raw materials, rebuffing Beijing’s arguments that curbs are necessary to protect the environment, according to trade diplomats and lawyers. The decision will help steelmakers and other industrial producers, but, more importantly, will set a precedent for the U.S. and [...]
China studies US$13b investment in Spain banks
Chinese investors including the country’s sovereign wealth fund may inject $13 billion into Spanish banks, a government source said on Wednesday after Spain’s premier met financial authorities in Beijing. There was no immediate comment from Beijing and it was not clear what terms would make the risk attractive to China, which has invested cautiously in [...]
The Ritz Staff Who Waited 3 Years
At Toscana, the Italian restaurant in the former Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong that closed shop three years ago, the food was spectacular and the atmosphere was formal old Europe. The restaurant was a favorite of expatriate bankers in Central district. To enter its dining room was like walking into a grand Venetian villa. At the new [...]
Classic Poetry: The last rose of summer
‘Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone; No flower of her kindred, No rosebud is nigh, To reflect back her blushes, To give sigh for sigh. I’ll not leave thee, thou lone one! To pine on the stem; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep [...]
Send the wrong gift, romantic without even counterproductive
It pays to communicate your love in ways that have the most meaning for your partner for Valentine’s Day, the California Healthy Marriages Coalition advises. Patty Howell, vice president of the California Healthy Marriages Coalition in Los Angeles, says candy and cards are traditional on Valentine’s Day but that only works if a partner really [...]
Prince William approves wedding souvenirs for sale
Britain’s royal wedding is still four months away, but the first official memorabilia went on sale Monday – a range of wedding china personally approved by the couple. Prince William’s office said the items had been commissioned by the palace department responsible for the royal family’s art collection and made in Stoke-on-Trent in central England, [...]
Clinton Calls Leaks Attack on Global Community
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday said the U.S. ‘deeply regrets’ embarrassment caused by the leak of a quarter-million classified State Department documents and said the government is taking ‘aggressive steps’ to prevent future leaks. The Obama administration ordered a governmentwide review of how agencies safeguard sensitive information in the wake of the unauthorized [...]
