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...first trigger for the elation was a comment by one of the least respected executives in the recent history of Wall St. Vikram Pandit, who many think ran Citigroup (C) into the ground. He said recently that the bank had been profitable for the first two months of the year. If this week marks the bottom of the stock market and the beginning of the end of the recession, his words will join "Remember The Alamo" and "The British Are Coming" in the history books. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Just two days after Pandit's comment, the head of another beleaguered firm, Bank of America (BAC), said the company would not need another dime from the government and that it would make money in 2009. Ken Lewis has been maligned for his role in buying brokerage firm Merrill Lynch and then not noticing that it had lost $15 billion late last year. And, oh yes, then may have illicitly paid some of that money in bonuses to Merrill management...
...said. “Some of his writings were orthodox, others were heterodox...he was vacillating between the two, trying to figure out who he was as a writer and thinker.” “He was very much in the mode of a commentator and a chronicler of the liberal foibles of Harvard. There was always a depth that other polemicists did not have,” Ambinder added. Douthat’s freshman year roommate Jason T. Sauer ’02 said he was unsurprised by Douthat’s appointment based on his recollections...
Other Fairchild MCB professors could not be reached for comment. Guidotti said some of them may move into the Biological Laboratories due to space constraints in Northwest...