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...very difficult to implement," Adario said. "But the problem is that while the government knows where the deforestation is taking place it doesn't know who is doing it. They don't know who owns what out there. Lots of people don't have legal papers, some of the land has been taken in land grabs and it is hard pinning down the culprits...
Judging by Leeson's experience, Société Générale's rogue trader might some day land another career. Leeson is now manager of the Galway United soccer team in Ireland, and was portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the 1999 movie Rogue Trader, the film version of his autobiography. He has written a further book entitled Back from the Brink: Coping with Stress. That sounds like perfect bedtime reading this week for Société Générale executives...
...Russian peasants, whom he finds "as uncouth and primitive as the Somali Bedouins." And the book is further marred by the same sort of excessive nautical argot (starboard this, lateen that) that makes Moby Dick such a tough sea of words to oar through. But whenever De Monfreid reaches land and begins to describe the gallery of rogues and brutes and generally weird people he claims to meet on his journeys, the book can spellbind...
Though Davenport insisted that the Lampoon's award had never used the theatrical society's name, he did admit that the magazine may have been trading on the theatrical society's prominence to land a big-time celebrity...
Even if Harvard had sought to sell the land, it may have faced an uphill legal battle because of the restrictions outlined in the will...