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...idea of FACES was... not to stick disparate art forms together, one on top of the other, but to really teach and learn from each other and meld the art forms together into something greater than each individual part,” Sullivan wrote in an email...
...orderly way if they fail. At the same time, the Senate is moving ahead with its own bill, with talk of a markup in Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's Banking Committee before Thanksgiving. Treasury has even held preliminary discussions with Dodd and Frank staffers about how to meld the two bills, even though both versions remain in flux. Earlier in the fall, Geithner's staff went through their proposals line by line with the Senate Banking Committee's top Republican, Richard Shelby...
...solution: a new type of insurance. Retirement savings, it turns out, are exactly the type of asset we need insurance for. We need insurance to protect against risks we can't predict (when the market collapses) and can't afford to recover from on our own. "People tend to meld savings and insurance in their mind, but they are not substitutes," says Nancy Altman, a former Harvard professor and the author of The Battle for Social Security. "It's fine to have a savings plan as a supplement but not as the main retirement protection for everyone." She says...
Andrew Kirtzman's Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff (Harper) offers the biggest payoff of the three books. It's a perfect meld of business details and personalities, including the still unresolved role played by Madoff's wife and sons in the scam. The author is more interested than Arvedlund in Madoff the man and in the emotional aspect of this financial soap opera. He has perfect pitch when it comes to the agony and shame of the Jewish community for finding such a gonif (Yiddish for thief) in its midst...
...company, demanded an internal review earlier this year. French media reports speculated that Lauvergeon could get the heave-ho as part of the evaluation, which looked at finances and strategy. The government was also reportedly upset that Lauvergeon continued to resist pressure from the Elysée to meld Areva with private French engineering company Alstom and private construction giant Bouygues to create a national nuclear megacompany...