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...strident but often head and shoulders above the competition - had ceased to exist. In the early hours of the morning police and security guards hired by the network's new owners had taken over its studios and installed a new management headed by Boris Jordan, a U.S.-born investment banker. Jordan tried to sound conciliatory, declaring that "a new epoch" had begun for NTV. He didn't say it, but that era's hallmark will probably be obedience. As they arrived for work on Saturday, staff members were asked to sign a pledge to cooperate with the new management. Those...
WILFRED HORIE banker in South Korea...
Wilfred Horie, 55, a Japanese American trained in the U.S., last year became the first foreigner to head a South Korean bank (Korea First Bank). Now he is also the first banker to refuse a government directive to help bail out ailing South Korean companies. He said it was against his bank's "risk policy." Horie has also broken with Korean traditions of hierarchy by lunching with low-ranking employees and seeking out their views...
...things and do them well," she says. "But what's important to me is having financial independence from my parents and a good lifestyle - which simply means being able to go out and enjoy myself and be with my friends." Adriano Rossi, an Italian who works as a banker in London, says that many friends who left Italy to pursue international careers eventually want to move back "because of quality of life, family and a generally more comfortable lifestyle." He's among them. "What is an evening in Trastevere worth?" he asks. "Or a weekend at the beach in Gaeta...
...unfairness. They may reject leftist class-warfare rhetoric, but they get a scrupulous twitch when people with plenty of money seem to be having too much of a party while the markets dive, and too many others seem to be sleeping under bridges. Bush's tax cut and his banker-friendly plan to make bankruptcy tougher may lead the middle third to think they are watching a Charlie Chaplin movie...