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...Euro-Asia is raked through the muck, the concern now is that other listed private Chinese companies will be splattered. A UBS Warburg index of 20 of these so-called "private chips" has fallen 10% since it was inaugurated in January 2001. That's far less than the 45% fall of Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index. But p-chips plunged three percentage points since the Yang scandal broke. Because of the lack of transparency and secrecy among Mainland companies, "it is quite difficult to sort out which are the reliable ones and which are the crooks," says Willis...
...Craig ’04 publicized the event with posters and emails, drawing partygoers from all walks of student life. There were boisterous groups of friends for whom the clay party was clearly a prelude to the rest of the evening, laughing and marveling at the spinning lumps of muck before them. More serious sculptors huddled over their creations as they took shape. Many donned makeshift garbage-bag smocks as they dove into giant buckets of white and brown stoneware clay, and then kneaded, pounded and slammed it to free it of air bubbles...
Leading a pack of bargain hunters and curious passersby on a tour through the bowels of Kirkland, Eddleston peddled oak coat racks, metal tables and muck-marked rugs students had donated for the auction...
...What we do need to save--and what we have done a fair job of bollixing up so far--is the earth as we like it, with its climate, air, water and biomass all in that destructible balance that best supports life as we have come to know it. Muck that up, and the planet will simply shake us off, as it's shaken off countless species before us. In the end, then, it's us we're trying to save--and while the job is doable, it won't be easy...
...only when the rinse cycle begins," a wise old friend of mine likes to say, "that you can tell how dirty the laundry really was." With Enron, Arthur Andersen, Henry Blodget and Dennis Kozlowski all sloshing back and forth in the muck, it has become clear to everyone that the late bull market in stocks was fueled partly with Potemkin profits, partly with bluster, partly with outright lies...