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...Citi repaid the government's $20 billion in Citi preferred shares, and it closed an insurance agreement that had the government backing as much as $300 billion in troubled Citi loans. But the deal did nothing to repurchase the 7.7 billions shares the government had acquired in Citi in mid-2009. The Treasury considers its remaining stake in Citi part of the Capital Purchase Program initiated at the start of the financial crisis. But because the government owns common stock and not preferred, the Citi deal is unlike any of the hundreds the Treasury has struck with other banks that...
...failed to pay 200 of its employees for the past seven months. About 80 angry workers forced their way into a board meeting, compelling company managers to hastily promise an initial payment within days and a settling of all debts by the end of the Iranian year in mid-March - with New Year bonuses as an added sweetener. (See pictures of December's violent street demonstrations in Tehran...
...mostly confined to the media outlets of human rights and labor organizations, whose members operate under perpetual fear of arrest and intimidation. Iran's official media continue to portray Iran as a success story. Indeed, so does President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. However, at Ahmadinejad's most recent press conference, in mid-February, a reporter asked the President about the omission of third-quarter GDP growth figures from the latest report by Iran's Central Bank. Ahmadinejad simply dismissed the importance of interim figures as "mere estimates" and claimed that current growth stood at 6.9%. Significantly, the newspaper World of Industry...
Harvard will travel to Washington, D.C. this Wednesday to take on the No. 13 Georgetown Hoyas. The game will be televised on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network and is Harvard’s only televised game of the season...
Whatever strategy the Crimson is applying seems to be working: last week, Harvard ranked first in the country in CollegeSwimming.com’s mid-major rankings. National recognition and steady leadership from the upperclassmen hold promise of another great season next year...