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Call it the downside of getting global. In the mid-1990s, HSBC's business was based primarily in Hong Kong and Britain. Since 1998, however, the bank has completed more than 50 acquisitions, the biggest coming in the U.S., where HSBC previously had only a minor presence in the form of Marine Midland Bank, which it bought in the '80s. In 1999 HSBC acquired Republic New York Corp. for $9.7 billion. In 2003, in a move that signaled HSBC's determination to shift into higher-margin consumer businesses, HSBC paid $14.4 billion for Household International, a provider of car loans...
...performances in the United States have been rare, as her travel was once strictly limited by the Soviet government. Gutman will be accompanied by her son, violinist Slava Moroz and pianist Dmitri Shteinberg in a program of four pieces: Brahms’ “Sonata N.1 E Minor,” Arensky’s “Trio in D Minor, Op. 32,” Schumann’s “Five Pieces in Folk-style, Op. 102,” and Shostakovich’s “Piano Trio N.2 in E Minor...
Last week, though, MPRP formed a majority after it offered cabinet seats to the three minor parties...
...watched the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) matter unfold in the Alito confirmation hearings. Judge Alito was an undergraduate at Princeton at the very moment the school went co-ed. It seems that, like many men of his vintage, he opposed the admission of women and/or affirmative action for minorities. At least that's the implication of his joining CAP, a group formed to preserve the Princeton of yore as an elite academy for white males. Yet Alito, a man with a highly orderly mind, is oddly vague about his association with the group. He told his Senate inquisitors that...
...with his opposition to affirmative action and easy to remember back when it suited him. That Alito's name did not turn up in a search of CAP papers demanded by Ted Kennedy has been seen as vindication for the judge-a sign that Democrats were overreaching on this minor matter. The hearing's ?biggest bang? on Wednesday, writes the Washington Post, thus ended in a whimper...