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...business associate of Sante Kimes' who was found shot to death in a Dumpster near Los Angeles International airport in March. Police suspect the Kimeses may have fraudulently obtained a $260,000 loan on property listed in his name. And Bahamian police have unanswered questions about the death of banker Syed Bilal Ahmed, who vanished in Nassau in September 1996. Sante Kimes reportedly had dealings with Ahmed shortly before he disappeared...
With his considerable earnings insulating him from perverse financial pressures, the investment banker-turned-policymaker quickly made a name for himself in the Clinton administration...
...want those same things. Throughout my Harvard career, I thought I had to live up to some mythical stereotype of the Harvard student. I made myself believe that I wasn't really a Harvard student unless I wanted to be a doctor, graduate student, lawyer, consultant or investment banker. It took me a long time to admit that I didn't really want one of the traditional jobs. I never considered myself an "academic"; I never really felt at home in the lecture halls. The only place that felt like home to me was The Harvard Crimson...
...dipping into an olla podrida involving cupidity, lost love and sudden deaths at the church that may or may not have been accidents. Among those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze Our Lady falls through. Lurking on the sidelines are a sleazoid journalist with a bent for blackmail, and Seville's worldly archbishop, whose diocese will profit if the church is destroyed...
...have the banks been irradiated? One U.S. central banker says no. Financial derivatives during the Asian crisis "worked as expected," said Federal Reserve governor Susan Phillips in a March speech. But that comment may be more a prayer than a conviction. "It's far too early to be handing out Oscars to the banks for how they performed in Asia," says Paul Spraos, publisher of the Swaps Monitor, a derivative newsletter. "It's definitely premature to say the worst of the losses are behind us. These things take time to emerge...