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...Unfortunately for the country - and it is the country that is watching all of this - that action was almost certainly not ethical. It was a case of two men with the power to determine the fate of another man and the company he led by taking all of his responsibilities out of his hands. By the action, Bernanke and Paulson pushed Lewis to betray a trust to his shareholders, his customers, and his employees. Bank of America has been on many of the lists of mortally ill banks which may have to be broken up or nationalized since the Merrill...
...Zedong—Chinese filmmakers sought to return to the perceived origins of their culture as a way of accounting for China’s contemporary problems. “They were asking, ‘Is anything wrong with the makeup of our culture that has led us to where we are now?’” Wang says. “[Filmmakers] had a lot of interest in going to frontier areas to observe the ethnic minorities’ ways of life, to use them as a frame of reference to reflecting China proper...
...high cost of caring for horses has sometimes led some owners to abandon their animals, to sell them to slaughterhouses or to attempts at fraud in order to collect insurance. But polo is a rich man's sport and Vargas certainly does not seem to have been hurting from the care and feeding of his steeds - or skimping on providing for them. His Lechuza Caracas polo team plays around the world, and he transports his stable of 60 ponies - estimated to cost about $100,000 each - on special jets...
...work of two thousands years of Western male imagination. Debates still rage over everything from Cleopatra's identity - cranial scans of her half-sister's skull this year suggested she may be African, though her known lineage was Greek - to her looks. Close scrutiny of coin portraits have led some to believe that she was rather plain, a conclusion borne out by the Roman historian Plutarch who wrote "her beauty was in itself not altogether incomparable, nor such as to strike those...
Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, defended the government's concession to the Taliban, denying in an interview with CNN that the cease-fire agreement amounted to capitulation. He justified the action by comparing it to the 2006 U.S.-led Anbar Awakening in Iraq in which U.S. military commanders struck agreements with moderate jihadists. "We are open to criticism of that strategy, but to think that that strategy somehow represents an abdication of our responsibility toward our people and toward the security of our country and the region is incorrect," Haqqani said...