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...extortion mushroomed as well. But the city has been safer since Reyes agreed in March to let 5,000 army troops and 2,000 federal cops take over police duties for the time being. Just before Holder and Napolitano arrived in Mexico, federal agents captured an alleged top boss of the Juárez Cartel, Vicente Carrillo Leyva. Juárez's murder rate dropped from a horrific 10 per day in the final months of 2008 to just five in March. The gangs are lying low for now, and the city's 1.5 million people are venturing back...
Fleming is not alone. Frank Yeary, Citigroup's former head of mergers and acquisitions, left the bank last summer to become a vice chancellor at the University of California, Berkeley. Apparently, Yeary's boss at the time was a little jealous. A month later, Citi's head of investment banking, Michael Klein, left for Princeton University. Harvard has nabbed a top Wall Streeter as well: Edward Frost left the job of Goldman Sachs' head of investment management to join that school as executive vice president. (See pictures of 10 cities that are hiring at LIFE.com...
...Washington Globe, as he's pursuing what seems to be the all-too-routine murder of a drug dealer. Another Globe staffer, perky bloggista Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), is digging for sexual dirt attending the relationship of a Capitol Hill researcher, dead in a train accident, to her boss, Congressman Stephen Collins (Affleck). Cal muscles in on Della's story because in college he was close to the budding politician - and even closer to Stephen's wife, Anne (Robin Wright Penn). As Cal and Della form an uneasy alliance, they begin trying to weave a coherent pattern out of dozens...
...online. Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom were sentenced to a year in jail, and ordered to cough up $3.6 million to a raft of entertainment firms - from EMI to Columbia Pictures - bilked, said the court, out of valuable revenues. The decision, said John Kennedy, boss of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, which represents the global music business, was "good news for everyone ... making a living or a business from creative activity and who needs to know their rights will protected...
...been here before. Alan Bersin, President Obama's pick for "border czar" essentially had the same job under President Clinton. This time, however, instead of serving under Attorney General Janet Reno, Bersin's boss will be Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who will expect him to handle illegal immigration and drug violence issues along the Mexican-American border. A man who is used to jumping into jobs with almost no experience, Bersin at least has a leg up on this...