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...measure of Americans' confidence in financial institutions, faith in banks - on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 denotes no trust and 5 complete confidence - fell from 2.95 to 2.8 in the first quarter of this year; trust in bankers slipped from 2.6 to 2.5. Things are even bleaker elsewhere. In a January ICM poll carried out across 17 of the world's leading economies - using a scale of 1 to 10 - public trust in the stability and solidity of banks came in at 4 in Germany, 4.2 in the U.K., and 5.1 in France. (See pictures...
...lover George Dyer, a onetime London hood who killed himself in their hotel room on the eve of Bacon's first big retrospective, in Paris in 1971. In those pictures Bacon didn't simply unload his grief. He used it to find his way to the even bleaker abbreviations of a pitiless world he produced in the 1970s. Dyer's grotesque end--he was found dead on the toilet from a drug overdose--stands behind these paintings, but they speak to you about more universal miseries. This is the thing so compelling about Bacon, the sense he produces that...
...leaders in their motorcades swept out of central London and into the bleaker reaches of the city's eastern sprawl at first light this morning. After sporadic violence from protestors yesterday and amid tight anti-terror precautions, police were out in force along the otherwise deserted route. The delegations were served breakfast before being lined up for the obligatory family snap and then sitting down for business. They have 2 hours and 40 minutes before lunch and one hour after lunch to finalize their plans. Because many of the chief participants need to depart London this evening for tomorrow...
...team of researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. What the investigators found was not encouraging. Currently, only about 1 in 10 hospitals nationwide has adopted even basic electronic record-keeping - and when you look inside that one statistic, the situation gets bleaker...
...departure from previous downturns, some expats are electing not to return to banking centers such as New York City and London. This recession is global, and the implosion of the financial-services industry means job prospects back home are even bleaker. American Marc Rudajev, a 37-year-old ex-hedge fund manager whose $350 million fund dissolved in the middle of 2008 as global stock markets swooned, is one of the Singapore expats not hurrying home. "This economic crisis is affecting every country," he says wearily. "But if there is a glimmer of hope anywhere, it's here rather than...