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...Argentina have spilled over to Brazil, and those of Turkey have set off the usual round of bad mouthing of emerging markets from the always overpaid, usually undereducated people who run London's trading desks and the world's major (mostly American) investment banks. Their juvenile views get instant exposure on the wire services, TV talk shows and the business dailies. Western orthodoxy tells us to believe that markets deliver rational results. But in practice, crowd psychology rules currency and stock markets...
...decisions and a decreased ability to focus. By attention the authors mean both the ability to pay attention and the ability to attract it. While readers of Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor) will wince at the gimmicky ADD slogan, any executive who is drowning in e-mail, voice mail, instant messages, pager messages, faxes and cell-phone calls will find this book thought provoking. --By Andrea Sachs...
...wake of the dot-com bubble-burst, in which it became apparent that most of those instant-celebrity analysts - and the Internet stocks they blessed with hundred-dollar price targets - had been full of hot air, Wall Street found itself staring down the barrel of congressional scrutiny and decided to polish its own image...
...first full-length play The Birthday Party (it was pulled out of a London theater after just four performances, following catastrophic reviews), Harold Pinter has risen to become perhaps Britain's most revered contemporary writer. That reputation started to build with his second full-length play, The Caretaker, an instant hit that ran for 444 performances and was quickly followed by international productions. Certainly he has attained the rare distinction of having merited an adjective in the Oxford English Dictionary - "Pinteresque: ... pertaining to, or characteristic of ... Harold Pinter, or his works...