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...human population is depleted, there's worldwide panic, a run on the blood bank, with no bailout in sight...unless Bromley Marks, one of the major blood-supplying companies - Big Farma - can develop a blood substitute. The vampires are addicts; and if real blood is their heroin, this would be their methadone. Leading the experiment is Edward Dalton (Ethan Hawke), Bromley Marks' chief hematologist. But Edward doesn't have his heart in his work. When his younger brother Frankie (Michael Dorman), a soldier in the vampire army, brings him a birthday bottle of vintage blood (sang-real-a?), Edward snaps...
...financial crisis will hold its first public hearing. First up to be accused of causing massive foreclosures, nearly bankrupting our financial system and robbing us all of our retirement savings: Wall Street CEOs. On Wednesday, four top financial executives are scheduled to testify in front of the commission, including Bank of America's recently appointed chief Brian Moynihan, Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Morgan Stanley's John Mack...
...hearings in public, and will quickly release any information it uncovers. Two members of the panel, Keith Hennessey and Byron Georgiou, have their own blogs. Last week, Hennessey, who was a White House economics adviser to President George W. Bush, asked readers what he should be asking bank CEOs. (See the worst business deals...
...from international clients. After struggling to convince Spanish companies to outsource to India, TCS found them much more comfortable outsourcing to the firm's staff in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Business is coming from local companies as well. In early December, TCS launched a currency-trading network for Chinese banks, a project completed for the People's Bank of China...
...Cabinet, including Hala Latouf, the Minister for Social Development. There are women judges, too, in Palestine, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates - something that would have been hard to imagine a generation ago. And women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the economy; in the West Bank recently I met female lawyers, architects and even a lift engineer. Of course, we can't get carried away. In some Middle Eastern countries, the progress of women can appear desperately slow. And in none have women attained anything like the opportunities we take for granted in Western Europe or North America...