Sweet deal

By Marc Levy

Published: January 25, 2004

As the Parmalat scandal hints, and the World Economic Forum going on in Davos, Switzerland, has just confirmed, European businesses are just as feckless and prone to illegality as U.S. businesses — and just as prone to try to avoid, and end, regulation. Reuters is reporting that business executives at the conference “shunned calls for [...]

Tabula errata

By Marc Levy

Published: January 24, 2004

It is sad to see the death of Porter Square’s famed Long Funeral Service. It never failed to raise a smile, funeral home though it was, and for the attentive served as a great appetizer or dessert (depending on which direction you were walking) to “Gas With a Smile.” What will replace it is a [...]