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...intimate portrayal of our troops broke my heart. In the 1960s, Pete Seeger lamented the government's choices: "When will they ever learn?" A lot has changed since Seeger wrote those words, and then again, nothing has changed. Tracy Leverton, VIENNA...
...intimate portrayal of our troops broke my heart. In the 1960s, Pete Seeger wrote, "Where have all the soldiers gone?" and lamented the government's choices: "When will they ever learn?" A lot has changed since Seeger wrote those words, and then again, nothing has changed. Tracy Leverton, Vienna...
Prosecutors in Manhattan said they broke up a major insider-trading ring, the largest ever centered in the hedge-fund industry. Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire co-founder of the Galleon Group, and five others were arrested and charged with earning $20 million off stock trades on the basis of information unavailable to the public. Rajaratnam, whose firm manages $3.7 billion, allegedly relied on a broad network of sources, including executives at IBM and McKinsey & Co., for lucrative tips; one leak about a Google earnings report yielded his firm $8 million in profits in 2007, authorities said. The investigation...
When the news broke in January that wall street executives were paying themselves handsomely for piloting the U.S. economy into a mountainside, President Obama's response was unequivocal. "It is shameful," he said. Ten months later, even as he moved to curb bailed-out execs' pay, banks are on track to pay employees a record $140 billion this year. Andrew Hall, a star trader at Citi's commodities unit Phibro, made headlines for what could be a $100 million payout. "Frustrating," said White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel with a sigh, appearing on CBS's Face the Nation...
...Nyamekye had other ideas, clearing the ball before it broke the plane...