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...their pay until the end of the year. "There is just too much variability in year-end pay," says Martin Teevan, who joined Cantor & Co. from Goldman Sachs in December, and is the head of high yield and distressed bond trading. "There is a lot of concern that no matter how well you do at Big Bank XYZ, you just won't get paid...
...know how to properly bring up Hu Yaobang's legacy in China. Though Chinese President Hu Jintao (no relation to Hu Yaobang) formally rehabilitated Hu four yeas ago by honoring his contributions to China in a series of public events on what would have been his 90th birthday, the matter is still a delicate one. So those who knew him, and those who were inspired by him, have decided to continue Hu's work in Hong Kong. "I know Hong Kong has many problems, like self-censorship," Meng said at a downtown coffee shop a few weeks ago here...
...spot number twenty-eight (because even at night, some things were meant to have order), watching the stars. He was discovering that the stars have no order, or at least none immediately discernable. He knew, of course, that there must be some pattern. Everything in nature, no matter how obscure, no matter how frequently, participated in the world’s rhythm. He believed deeply in such things. But just now he was feeling very small. For being unable to find the rhythm in something so vast. But he was comforted as he lay there, discovering that the order...
...While the Pope and other religious leaders would not sacrifice their moral tenets no matter what the scientific evidence says about AIDS prevention strategy, presumably objective and impartial scientists should have no qualms about adhering so strictly to the data...
...residents of Mosul, however. The Sunni insurgency has found its new, and perhaps permanent, home in Iraq and is highly unlikely to decamp on its own. That means Mosul, or large portions of it, will remain a scene of lawlessness and violence for some time to come, no matter what Iraqi and U.S. officials decide...