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...more days without word from her husband, she frantically called the Army and urged that someone check on him. Nine hours later, two soldiers finally unlocked the door to his room. They found Cassidy slumped in his chair, dead, his laptop and cold takeout chicken wings on his desk...
...nobody had heard of Jérôme Kerviel. He was just another junior trader at France’s second largest bank, Société Générale. A day later, his name headlined nearly every major financial daily across the globe. Although his desk was limited to about $180 million in positions, Kerviel had forged passwords, faked control e-mails, and fabricated hedges in order to go well beyond the limit. He had learned all the necessary control tricks to pull off this feat during his time at the bank’s nondescript...
...This all sounds egalitarian in impulse and wonderfully eco-friendly (even if Livingstone's staff have placed a large bouquet of exotic flowers, fresh off a plane, on the desk where he will sign off on the CO2-saving scheme). So why am I less than enthused by the announcement? Full disclosure: sitting in my garage is the kind of car that the mayor wants kept off the streets...
Decia B. Goodwin spent the day working the desk at the polling place in Quincy House...
...Obama's campaign is backing up his inclusive words with actions. Realizing they were heading into not just California but Super Tuesday primaries in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, which all have large Latino populations, the Obama campaign has made Latino outreach one if its top priorities. The front desk of its Los Angeles headquarters on the ninth floor of an anonymous office building in Korean town has a sign-up sheet titled: "We really need your help reaching out to Spanish speakers." The list is full. The campaign's extensive Latino outreach program includes 6,000 precinct captains...