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...well known. Debt-fueled and gluttonous, bankers around the world took wild risks that their bosses and regulators failed to stop. Throw in Bernard Madoff's massive fraud, and trust right now is as scarce as good credit. According to the Chicago Booth/Kellogg School Financial Trust Index, a new quarterly measure of Americans' confidence in financial institutions, faith in banks - on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 denotes no trust and 5 complete confidence - fell from 2.95 to 2.8 in the first quarter of this year; trust in bankers slipped from 2.6 to 2.5. Things are even bleaker...
...President Joe Biden, there's no risk for a healthy person in the U.S. to take mass transportation, but the truth is that many travelers these days are still feeling skittish about getting on a plane. In a recent TripAdvisor.com poll of 2,857 users of the site, a quarter of the people who responded said they were changing their plans because of the H1N1 flu virus...
Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trong Niet, an 85-year-old painter who has lived most of his life in a rundown flat in Hanoi's Old Quarter, proudly says he painted Muong Kuong Market years ago in his living room, which is also his bedroom and kitchen. The vibrant lacquer brushwork of the piece exquisitely captures the bustle of market day in a Vietnamese village. The Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, the country's national art museum, thought so too. Officials there snapped up the painting for their collection, and for the past 40 years, Niet's work has been hanging...
Sophomore Dean Gibbons finished up the third quarter for Harvard, recording two tallies at 9:18 and 1:23 with balls from freshman Kevin Vaughan and Burr, respectively...
Luckily for the Crimson, that second-half surge was just enough to power them over the Big Green and end the regular season with a win. Harvard scored four consecutive, unanswered goals during the third period, leaving Dartmouth trailing 4-7 as the quarter-ending whistle blew...