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...German Chancellor Angela Merkel coolly torpedoed his proposed $409 billion Europe-wide financial rescue plan. No money for the greedy fools of other lands, she seemed to say, only to then guarantee German private bank accounts and save Hypo Real Estate. That followed similar moves by Ireland and Greece. And Britain's Gordon Brown will always be loath to see Brussels lay its regulatory hand on London's City; his recapitalization of Britain's banking sector was no less unilateral than Merkel's actions...
UPMC, not U.S. Steel, is the biggest employer in the area, with 50,000 workers. It's an exporter in its own right: UPMC runs hospitals in Ireland, Italy and Qatar. It exports knowledge, not metal. UPMC's operating revenue has been growing at 12% annually for the past five years, generating cash-flow earnings in excess of $500 million annually and enabling UPMC to reinvest a like amount. "We believed, even before this dramatic recession, that UPMC could not continue to support its growth living off Medicare and insurance revenues," he says...
...Then did growing up in Ireland have anything to do with your talent...
...enjoyed teaching here. It’s an ideal place to teach—the quality of the students and the amount of contact you can have with students. I taught for years in Ireland in big lecture groups, and here a writing class was 12 or 14 people. I also enjoyed doing the lectures because I was bringing news of British and Irish poets. I felt I was doing my own culture over there some service here...
...journalism" with this book. What's the difference between that and just a plain old biography?Psychologists have never done investigative journalism when they've written these biographies. Their books are always based on records or things they could research in a library. I actually went to Arkansas and Ireland and Africa and really chased down the story of who this guy is by interviewing lots of people-4,000 pages of interviews. I really wanted to take my skills as a psychologist but go out and actually get original material...