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...purpose - as corny as it sounds - is to produce those increasingly rare stories that possess "moral force," according to editor-in-chief Paul Steiger, who spent 16 years as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. "We're going to try to do stories such that, by shining a light on an abuse of power, we'll give the public the information it needs to effect change," he says. Such statements make Steiger sound like the most idealistic 66-year old around, a fact he acknowledges. "This is the first time in a long time that I've gone...
Harvard Business School Dean Jay O. Light may take a seat on the board of Citigroup, the venerable-but-troubled Wall Street bank that has taken over $40 billion in write-downs over the past year...
...Light, who holds a doctorate in decision theory from Harvard and is an expert in risk management, is being recruited to join Citigroup's board as part of the bank's drive to add people with financial expertise...
News of the discussions between Light and Citigroup, which were confirmed by an official at the Business School, were first reported in The New York Times on Wednesday. Both parties have declined requests for comment, and because nothing has yet been finalized, officials who have spoken to the media have requested anonymity...
...stone document, which is owned by a Swiss-Israeli antiques collector and reportedly came to light about a decade ago, has been dated by manuscript and chemical experts to a period just before Jesus' birth. Some scholars think it may originally have been part of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a trove of religious texts found in caves on the West Bank that were possibly associated with John the Baptist. The tablet is written in the form of an end-of-the-world prediction in the voice of the angel Gabriel; one line, for instance, predicts that "in three days...