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...McColl, asked him to move to Florida to run a string of branches, he reported to his new job in less than 24 hours. Through a series of purchases made by McColl, NCNB turned into NationsBank, which turned into Bank of America, which in time grew to become the nation's biggest retail bank, home loan provider and credit card issuer...
...quasi-savior on Wall Street - the man who helped you stand when you could no longer do it on your own. If everything goes smoothly, the Merrill Lynch & Co. purchase - which some analysts called "too good an opportunity" to pass up - will make Bank of America into the nation's largest brokerage firm as well, and help Lewis to save yet another drowning company...
...their way out the door, employees of the nation's fourth-largest investment bank had to wade through a crush of onlookers drawn to the carnage like sharks to blood. Reporters buttonholed staffers, asking what it felt like to lose their jobs. Executive recruiters bustled around, extending business cards to anyone whose suit suggested he or she might be a banker. A man leaning against the building's facade held aloft a printed sign on white letter-sized paper: LOOKING TO HIRE SYS ADMIN. Most employees passed through the scrum without acknowledging...
...capped and casual New Hampshire state trooper perched alongside Interstate 89 who, with a radar gun and a wave of his mighty hand, might snare that family vehicle just as Tony Soprano might spear a bit of veal on the end of a fork. We live in a nation of laws. This much is understood, and none among us would argue the fact. Still, only very few among us would argue that our edicts are immortal, immutable, or even always pertinent. As our sitting attorney general once said: “Not every wrong, or even every violation...
...Still, the evening was long on serious policy issues and short on one-liners, in keeping with the subdued tone of the campaign throughout the day as the nation remembered the tragedies of 9/11. Both camps agreed to suspend their campaign ads, and Obama and McCain visited the World Trade Center site together. (Obama had lunch with Bill Clinton in his Harlem office earlier in the day, while McCain visited Shanksville, Pa., the crash site of United Flight 93.) Given that most polls have shown the race to be tightening, the candidates will no doubt be eager to get back...