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Here's how it worked. The FDIC decided to run the bank itself rather than rely on the bank's past managers or hire new ones. So almost immediately after the agency took over IndyMac last July, it sent over two of its top officials, chief operating officer John Bovenzi and Dallas-based assistant director Rick Hoffman, to Pasadena, Calif., to run the bank. Bovenzi became IndyMac's CEO. Hoffman took on the role of president. For Bovenzi and Hoffman, cost-cutting was high on their agenda. They slashed the rate the bank was paying on certificates of deposit. Expensive...
...disease—Bacskai and researchers at MIND are in the process of using these imaging techniques to study other neurodegenerative diseases. “The point of MIND is to have all the researchers in an open lab environment,” said Anne B. Young, the chief of neurology at MGH and the director of MGH-MIND. “When somebody like Brian finds a new way of looking at something like Alzheimer’s disease we can then go quickly to looking at the same issues in other diseases...
...newly-emerging field. “Harvard and some other institutions at the time suggested that we needed to do what we could do to further this promising field and simultaneously work to try to resolve federal restrictions,” said Harvard’s chief lobbyist Kevin Casey. “There was a sense of urgency in that period that...private parties had to come and step in where the federal government had vacated the field.” PREMEDITATED PRIORITIZATION?Researchers quickly found themselves enjoying the support of both Summers and Hyman, a neurobiologist...
...Nawaz and the Pakistan People's Party (led, until her assassination, by his constant antagonist Benazir Bhutto and now headed by her widower, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan's President) has collapsed into bitter recrimination. Last week, the country's Supreme Court barred the ex-Premier and his brother, the Chief Minister of Punjab, from public office, a move Sharif accuses Zardari of masterminding. In an interview with TIME, Sharif spoke of his relations with Pakistan's President and other developments, including this week's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team...
Zardari's spokesman says you do not talk about terrorism and that you raise only the issue of former Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikar Chaudhry [whose dismissal by Musharraf led to the dramatic 2007 revolt of Pakistan's lawyers; Zardari has not restored Chaudhry to his old post, a move Sharif has demanded]. What is your reaction to this? We were partners, but now the partnership is over. We have been going the extra mile to support the government on fighting the issue of terrorism and extremism. We enabled the government to pass a resolution in the National Assembly...