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...wonder was always just shy of his 18th birthday. Ostensibly a reporter - although he is seen filing a story in only one frame in the entire 24-book oeuvre - Tintin took on various roles as detective, Boy Scout and secret agent. As time went by, he accumulated friends: along with his astute and faithful dog, Snowy, his retinue included cantankerous sailor Captain Haddock; eccentric egghead Professor Calculus; and the doltish, bowler-hatted, doppelgänger detectives, Thomson and Thompson. And his adventures took on more elaborate themes, from drug-smuggling to Cold War spying and even space travel; Tintin reached...
...Standard Bank, South Africa's largest lender, in part to serve Chinese-owned resources companies prospecting for oil, gold, copper and other metals in places like Angola, Congo, Liberia and Zambia. ICBC is now said to be interested in the Royal Bank of Scotland's Asian assets, along with Australia's ANZ Bank and Anglo-Asian lenders HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank...
...which is responsible for the "legacy loan program" to remove toxic loans from banks' books, is considering alternative plans to the one rolled out at the end of March by Geithner. A senior Treasury official says the legacy securities program, which is intended to handle toxic securities, is "chugging along nicely" and that they are seeing "interest on both sides" of potential sales. The official says that while some banks may be reluctant to participate, Treasury is not worried...
...Kagan assuming the Deanship, she emerged as the leading candidate, along with Williston Professor of Law Robert H. Mnookin, well ahead of then-President Lawrence H. Summers’ decision. This time around, the field is more open, with a slate of seven internal candidates and, among those, three or four top candidates whom Faust is considering...
...messages go, it doesn't get much clearer than that. But Geithner has known all along that there were two critical first steps the U.S. had to take in order to begin the process of reassuring its creditors. It had to demonstrate that it had a grip on the banking crisis - that financial Armageddon was not at hand - and it needed to show the world that a broad, macroeconomic turnaround wasn't too far down the road. Geithner is loathe to talk publicly about market behavior, but Treasury officials believe that a tightening of credit-market spreads shows an improvement...