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• Harvard gets its largest gift: $125 million
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Harvard Business School alumnus has given the university its largest individual donation ever — $125 million to start a bioengineering institute, the school announced Tuesday. Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss entrepreneur who earned an ...
• After an up-and-down day, stocks close lower
... point, saying in a statement that the turmoil in financial markets posed a further threat to an already shaky economy; it was joined in the rate cut by the European Central Bank, Bank of England, The Bank of Canada, the Swedish Riksbank and the Swiss ...
• Politics scuttles plan to put diplomats in Iran
U.S. interests in Iran are handled by the Swiss. While the administration has given up on opening the interest section in its waning months in office, it has gone ahead with promoting unofficial contacts with Iran. Late last month, the Treasury ...
• U.K. government to partially nationalize banks
... which the banking crisis is a global problem, as was evidenced by the simultaneous interest rate cuts announced on Wednesday by the Bank of England the European Central Bank, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, Sveriges Riksbank, and the Swiss ...
• ABOUT COSMIC LOG
He says experiments at the Large Hadron Collider , the particle-smasher that is now under repair far beneath the French-Swiss border, could unlock some of the Grid's biggest mysteries. CONTINUED >> Discuss ( 42 Comments ) Email this | Link to this