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...already been done. The unit has altered its asset mix - reducing its equity expo-sure and putting more money into bonds and cash. Credit Suisse also last week appointed Leonhard Fischer to head Winterthur. Does Fischer - who ran investment banking at Germany's Dresdner Bank - have the right background to run an insurance firm? Says Mack: "We have a lot of insurance experts. What we need are risk-management experts." Next, CSFB needs an overhaul. By year's end, the unit expects to have slashed 6,500 jobs since Mack's arrival. It has cut costs by €.4 billion...
...stern leader, Turner calls upon his military background in preaching discipline as the key to good offensive play...
...them knows it or not, Sean Warren Coughlin and William Jefferson Clinton have a lot in common. Just as an adolescent Clinton prophesied greatness for himself, young Coughlin believes he is fated to ascend to the highest ranks of the political hierarchy. And just as Clinton’s background was anything but moneyed, socially elite or even white-collared, Coughlin hails from an “average American family” whose roots are, he says, “very, very blue collar.” His father is a carpenter, his mother an administrative assistant...
Kentridge is an unusually versatile artist, with a background ranging from opera to politics. He was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg in 1955. In an interview with writer bell hooks in the September 1998 issue of Interview magazine, he noted that “a central irony exists for South African Jews. To be Jewish was to be other…But in the present, we are absolutely not part of those most oppressed.” Kentridge’s fascination with otherness and the divisions within South African society led him to earn...
...Amrozi's attempts to keep his name from the police were all too understandable: once he had been identified as the owner of the van, the skinny 39-year-old must have known his background would target him as a prime suspect. Amrozi was a self-taught auto mechanic and tinkerer who ran a workshop in his backyard; those skills would have been invaluable in assembling and transporting a bomb. He was also known to repair mobile phones; police believe such a handset may have been used to set off the bomb in Bali. He was a former hell-raiser...