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...Canary Wharf on Sept. 15, only to be told that the firm was out of business and that they should look for another job, some of them did what any number of their colleagues around town have been doing for years: they threw a party. On the equity-trading floor, the internal p.a. system known as the "hoot" blared out the R.E.M. song "It's the End of the World As We Know It." And then, after collecting their personal possessions, dozens of the Lehmanites crossed the concourse to the pub just opposite, All Bar One, where they drowned their...
...Palin vs. 'Palin,'" James Poniewozik writes, "Real Palin really sat down with Real Couric and gave a Really Bad Interview" [Oct. 20]. cbs broadcast excerpts from the interview over two nights, sadly not in its entirety. Will viewers see what wound up on the cutting-room floor? John Hammes, ATHENS...
...another financial crisis is raging, this time globally, and as Sabanci Dinçer watches it unfold from her elegantly furnished 27th-floor office in the heart of Istanbul, she inevitably has a feeling of déjà vu. But this time, while there's trepidation, there's also hope. The Turkish banks that survived that earlier crisis emerged from it much better capitalized - and more heavily regulated - than their peers in the U.S. or Europe. Today, thanks to surging investment and exports, the Turkish economy is double the size it was in 2001, and the nation's financiers...
...space—which included one residence hall on Mass. Ave and a parking lot behind it—drew a great deal of criticism from the community.David Chilinski, who is part of the Lesley working group, cited the absence of space for retail establishments on the ground floor of the Mass Ave building and the large parking lot that would jut into the neighborhood on Wendell Street as issues with the original proposal.“Lesley came with a plan that was what they would be allowed to do by right,” Chilinski said...
...economic deal for the developers throughout the 1960s, they almost uniformly provided plazas,” Kayden says. However, he adds that the regulations demanded little of developers. “You could basically slap down some terrazzo in front of your building and collect your 10-to-1 floor area bonus.”By the mid-70s, these new building practices had left a multitude of pointless, unattractive public spaces littered around the city. It was just at this time that a new underground culture was beginning to break out. Skateboarding had begun in California in the 1950s...