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...hedgies like Tse are taking it on the chin, victims of the global financial crisis and the one-two punch of poor returns and unhappy investors. After nearly doubling in size since 2002, to around 8,000 total funds last year, the industry is on the brink of a brutal contraction as customers - rich investors, university endowments and pensions funds that make up the bulk of hedge funds' clientele - rush to withdraw their investments. Some analysts predict that a quarter of all hedge funds could fold by the end of the year. Stephen Brown, an economist at New York University...
...very good cop. He nails criminals other police couldn't get--albeit using shady deals and the occasional beatdown with a steel chain. He's a shameless racist, yet he lives to take down crooks who prey on one of L.A.'s poorest and brownest neighborhoods. He's a brutal thug and a loving...
...Shield's unflinchingness, and creator Shawn Ryan's brutal writing, has made it as disturbing as any HBO drama. The final episodes are even more so. Seeing Shane's toddler on the run with him and his wife is almost unbearable, and Goggins plays the pathetic, mentally overmatched Shane like a cornered rat. Chiklis, meanwhile, is masterly. He defined Mackey with his Mr. Clean physique, but his most valuable body parts are his eyes. To the end, as his options narrow and it becomes clear Mackey has destroyed everything he's tried to build, they dart about, looking...
...Tribeca Film Festival, Alfredson’s dark fairy tale is capturing the hearts and minds of its viewers—and for good reason.The film, which takes place in a suburb of Stockholm, follows a 12-year-old boy named Oskar who is constantly and brutally bullied in school. A mysterious young girl named Eli moves next door with an older man presumed to be her father, and a rash of brutal murders coincides with her arrival. As Oskar and Eli grow closer every night, he begins to suspect that she may be a vampire. Despite this dark knowledge...
...Mugabe-Tsvangirai agreement at its recent summit by suggesting the co-management of home affairs that so clearly favors Zanu-PF. The SADC compromise places all enforcement—army, national defense, and now police, under home affairs—at the access of Mugabe, a brutal dictator. South Africa’s new president, Kgalema Motlanthe, has said he will take a harder line with Mugabe in general policy, but the SADC’s findings thus far reveal a clear pro-Mugabe bias...