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...January 23rd, 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?...
...Sharma's experience highlights one of the commercial spin-offs of the boom in dot-com dating - a massive growth in India's private-detective industry. "Business has skyrocketed since online matrimonial sites appeared on the scene," says Rahul Rai, director of Globe Group which is one of some 1,500 such agencies now operating in India. "Earlier, you'd marry someone your family knew well, or at least had vetted to meet their criteria. Now, with matrimonial sites, people are virtually marrying strangers...
...claims she had made about herself online. Where traditional matchmaking may have relied on a mutual relative or family friend to shuttle between the families of potential suitors, verifying their status to one another and helping settle matters such as dowry, Sharma had no such luxury: Instead, he approached Globe Group, a Mumbai-based detective agency, to check out his potential spouse. The gumshoes quickly established that Sharma's online paramour had been seen checking into a hotel with another...
Four Cambridge teens have been arrested in relation to the shooting and killing of another teen on Friday night, according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office. The Boston Globe reported yesterday that the Cambridge police found the body of Lucien Christalin, 18, with a gunshot wound to his chest at approximately 10 p.m. Friday, shortly after receiving calls about a shooting incident. Christalin was pronounced dead at the Massachusetts General Hospital the same night. One of the suspects, David J. Louis, 17, will appear before the Cambridge District Court on charges of illegally carrying firearms and ammunition...
...Three decades ago, while some of his compatriots waged a fierce independence struggle from the jungles of East Timor, Ramos-Horta took a less violent path. The now-58-year-old, who earned a Peace Studies degree at Antioch University in the U.S., tirelessly criss-crossed the globe, campaigning for an end to Indonesia's brutal annexation of his homeland. His passionate diplomacy eventually paid off. Six years after Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with East Timorese Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor finally won full independence from Indonesia, ending a traumatic occupation during which...