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...kidnappers' initial deadlines passed late last week, Pearl's family and friends clung to the hope that his cool head, innate charm and intelligence would protect him from further harm. "Danny's incredibly resourceful," said Nick Noyes, a friend of Pearl's from his days at the Massachusetts paper North Adams Transcript. "If anyone can get himself out of a mess like this, he can." But Pearl had been caught up in a new wave of anti-American terror, one that doesn't seem to follow any script. His friends and colleagues could do little more than wait...
Haven't we all heard the Nick Leeson story one time too many? Let's see, there was the unauthorized biography, then the ghost-written how-I-did-it and even a celluloid treatment, with Ewan McGregor playing the Rogue Trader. Apparently some of the folks at Allied Irish, Ireland's biggest bank, needed another telling of the tale to drive home the message that inadequately supervised traders can threaten even the most venerable institutions. So last week we got the real-life reenactment: Allied Irish alleged that John Rusnak, 37, a currency trader at Allfirst, its U.S. unit...
...Nick Leeson Barings, Britain?s oldest merchant bank, collapsed in 1995 after the Singapore-based Leeson ran up losses from unauthorized trading of nearly $1.3 billion. He was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail in Singapore for fraud but was released in 1999 because he was suffering from cancer...
...rough edges of each metallic box sometimes cause workers to nick and cut themselves when reaching into their dark and crowded interiors...
...Freestyle: 1. Kevin McCann (B) 45.96, 2. Nick Langan 46.60, 4. Jan Cieslikiewicz 47.00, 5. Brad Burns...