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...rale CEO Daniel Bouton. "He succeeded in building this hidden firm, in building his positions by hiding them by other positions that were totally fictional," Bouton told reporters at a Paris news conference on Thursday. "That is what is so extraordinary about this case." Bouton's offer to resign was rejected by the bank's administrators this week. Bank official said Thursday they needed to raise $8 billion to cover their losses and that 2007 profits would likely be between 600 million to 800 million euros (about $874 million to $1.16 million), a sharp drop from its 2006 profits...
What She Left Behind As a Pakistani Canadian, I read with great interest your coverage of Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan [Jan. 14]. While I offer sincere condolences on her untimely and fiery death, I must agree with William Dalrymple that her legacy is "mediocre." Far from being a martyr for freedom and democracy, she chose to live a life of luxury in self-imposed exile - in distant Dubai. Although she was Prime Minister of Pakistan twice, she did little to improve the conditions of the masses, particularly women and the poor. Jalaluddin S. Hussain, Brossard, Canada...
...leading constitutional law expert who has published several books on the history of race relations has accepted an offer to join the Harvard Law School faculty, school officials announced yesterday. The appointment of Michael J. Klarman, who is currently a law professor at the University of Virginia, brings the total number of full-time faculty to 94—the largest in the Law School’s history—and falls in line with a recent pattern of appointments of professors who are experts in the fields of public interest law. Klarman attributed his decision to join...
...fresh, maybe even exciting federal response to the interlocking national economic, energy and security crises should be front and center of the debate, but none of the Democrats running for President seems to have the courage or sagacity to make the offer. Their timidity was obvious when George W. Bush proposed a larger economic-stimulus package - roughly $145 billion - to meet the looming recession than Clinton, Obama or John Edwards did. Worse, the Democrats seemed willing to play on the Republican side of the field, proposing short-term fixes and tax rebates rather than a more comprehensive, thematic solution...
...narrow-gauge programs rather than broad themes. All too often they sounded like Ginsu-knife salesmen on late-night cable television: "And if you buy our children's health-care plan, we'll throw in - absolutely free! - a $4,000 college-tuition tax credit. Plus, this special onetime offer: universal day care!" To be sure, the Republicans had their own special interests and slovenly hypocrisies - an avalanche of corporate tax breaks that made Swiss cheese out of the federal code - but they could always return to their big, clean public offer: freedom, strength, morality...