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...chance to do while you're up there? No one's asked and therefore I've never said, but there is one kind of fun thing that I'm hoping I get a chance to do. When my father was on SkyLab, it had a big central chamber with this ring of lockers all the way around the perimeter; it was just big enough that you could run around and create enough centrifugal force to hold you against the lockers and have a little circular jogging track like in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm hoping to find a cross...
...down for two days on Sept. 16 after it lost 17% of its value in a matter of hours. At that point the market was down almost 60% for the year, its lowest level since early 2006, although it has since been boosted by measures taken by the Russian central bank and the Kremlin. Those measures, however, weren't enough to shore up the nation's largest investment bank, Renaissance Capital, which on Sept. 21 sold a 50% stake to the Russian oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov for $500 million. Just over a month ago, Forbes magazine, in a profile of Renaissance...
...Picasso was the first source. In the central panel of one of Bacon's great works from the 1970s, Triptych - In Memory of George Dyer, a shadowy man stands near the landing of a darkened stairwell, turning a tiny key in a lock. That key is surely borrowed from an odd creature doing the same in several of Picasso's seaside pictures from the late 1920s, when he was flirting with Surrealism. Those elastic Picassos, with their biomorphic figures that are part human, part dirigible, part swollen breast or phallus, turned a key in Bacon. They showed...
...Sara Rhodin is a master’s degree candidate in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at the Gradute School of Arts and Sciences. She spent her summer interning for The New York Times bureau in Moscow...
...direct question? As head of Goldman Sachs you played a very central role in building up and operating within this shadow banking system, including placing a fair amount of housing debt from Fannie...