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...RHEE'S TOUR OF SCHOOLS DURING the first week of classes this year, a parent stopped her to praise her accomplishments so far. Rhee listened with a small smile while systematically cracking each of her knuckles with the thumb of the same hand. Then she got back into her SUV and began furiously e-mailing. When she calls her staff, she does not say hello; she just starts talking. She answered 95,000 e-mails last year, according to her office...
...first bank to hit the wall. When Washington Mutual, which had a balance sheet less than a third the size of Citi's, went down, the FDIC immediately flipped the company to JPMorgan Chase. But marrying off Citi was not a viable option. "There isn't anyone to hand Citi to," says Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School. "This is the King Kong of banks." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...draw a lot of contact.”While Harvard was able to maintain a double-digit advantage over its Crusader opponents for the last few minutes, that was not the story the entire game. The Crimson began the game slow as Holy Cross seemed to get a hand on every Harvard possession, leading to a total of 12 first-half Crimson turnovers. When Harvard was able to get the ball to the hoop, the shots did not fall that often in the first moments of the game, and the Crimson ended up with a lowly 28 percent field goal...
...from each point of view, whether historical, cultural or geographical. In some cases, maybe too good a job: the litany of abuses attributed to the Apache by their attackers as justification for the massacre reads less like a Southwestern Rashomon and more like Murder on the Orient Express - every hand on the knife with its own, separate grievance. But even better is the way in which he paints a picture of the often intimate relationships and shifting loyalties between each group: a previously straightforward tale of atrocity becomes one shaded by historical grudges on top of intermarriage, tribal mistrust...
...good news about hedge-fund selling is that many funds raised substantial cash in the past month and should be able to meet redemptions with money they have on hand - at least in the short term. But the mutual-fund industry - for which fleeing investors don't have to give a 45-day notice, as they do for most hedge funds - may be a different story. According to an analysis by TrimTabs Investment Research, in the last bear market, at the time of the bursting tech bubble, 4.3% of dollars in U.S. stock funds were withdrawn. So far in this...