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...Should we be confident? Lehman's first day in Chapter 11 bankruptcy actually held some encouraging signs, as markets avoided chaos and the company itself appeared close to selling its asset management arm to a private equity firm. There were also reports that Barclays, which had decided over the weekend not to bid for Lehman as a whole, might still be interested in buying the core of Lehman's business, its broker-dealer operation...
...much for "Masters of the Universe." On Monday, being an employee of Lehman Bros. looked about as much fun as a perp walk. Overnight, the 158-year-old Wall Street behemoth filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a stunning collapse that may leave thousands of employees without jobs. With $639 billion in assets, the firm's filing is the largest in history. Throughout the day, as media crews hovered around the entrance to the firm's Midtown Manhattan headquarters, some of Wall Street's best and brightest trickled out onto the pavement, their faces crestfallen and their ties yanked askew...
...years William, 26, has professed a desire to dip into various professions in preparation for his ascension to the British throne. For the last two years, he has undertaken a number of training courses in the military. But instead of ending that military chapter and moving on to another, he has decided to enroll in an 18-month training program to fly Sea King rescue helicopters. The announcement follows news that he would not be allowed to serve in Afghanistan after his younger brother Harry was abruptly withdrawn from the front lines in the dangerous Helmand province in February amid...
Sure, there are some true grotesqueries to be found in the book. There's a wittily observed chapter on the weirdness that is Turkmenistan, with statues and giant photographs of the late dictator Saparmurat Niyazov everywhere: "In some he looked like a fat and grinning Dean Martin wearing a Super Bowl ring." As someone who's been to most of the places Theroux describes, that's the kind of sentence I want to read; the kind that makes me think, "Exactly!" (and "I wish I'd written that...
...climate change, Eric A. Pooley began working on a book about the politics of climate policy. While at the center, Pooley plans to research how the press is writing about the climate issue and the economic impact of climate legislation, and will eventually adapt his research paper into a chapter in his book. “Now that I’m starting to write, it’s just invaluable to have so many wonderful people to bounce my ideas off of,” said Pooley, a former managing editor of Fortune Magazine. Prospective fellows are chosen...