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...desk at the Financial Times--bonds, mortgage securities, derivatives. Arcane stuff, numbing stuff. Did she sense something? Tett eventually found herself covering the biggest financial story in a generation. Fool's Gold tells how a team at J.P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them. The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever...
...rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush...
...only you had known that earlier, how much you would sing.[1] It takes a global village.[2] WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE COULD POSSIBLY DO WITH THIS.[3] We might need to sharpen this. What is the effect? Does it at all relate to the rest of the paper?[4] Wait, is that category the joke?[5] http://theisisclub.org/donations.php. Dear Reader, this donations thing isn’t a joke. Dear Isis, Please direct all complaints to 925-876-3932. You thought we were scared, but we’ve just been waiting...
...they had been dating for at least a year. She didn’t expect it when Mancuso proposed on Castle Island after eleven months and two weeks of dating. “After we’d already decided we wanted to move in together and spend the rest of our lives together, that was kind of the logical step, so I was really excited about it,” said Donahue, a Georgia native. After Donahue graduates, the couple will move to Rio Grande Valley, Texas where she will teach elementary school through Teach for America...
...fair held each year, where Owings was tabling for STAGE, a student organization that promotes theater in local public schools. He ended up joining the group and they started dating shortly afterward. “I was walking around looking for new extracurricular activities and found one for the rest of my life, I guess you could say,” Downer said. Girlfriend became fiancée while the two were on vacation with Owings’ family in Jamaica this past Christmas break, after the couple had been together for over two years. Downer and Owings had just...