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...that didn't make its intentions clear enough, earlier this year Citigroup publicly identified a number of businesses that it would like to get rid of. Among those that are still left are its insurance division Primerica and a home-loan business, CitiMortgage. At the time, Citi said it would like to hold on to much of its retail and corporate bank. A Citi spokesperson says that continues to be the bank's plan. In July, CEO Vikram Pandit told financial-news outlet Bloomberg that the bank is "moving extremely fast" on asset sales. He said the bank had already...
...danger of words, dangers that are especially great for one who wields them as skillfully as he. A promise beautifully made raises hopes especially high: we will revive the economy while we rein in our spending; we will make health care simpler, safer, cheaper, fairer. We will rid the earth of its most lethal weapons. We will turn green and clean. We will all just get along. (See pictures of eight months of Obama's diplomacy...
...efforts on an individual level. “REP Reps” work to spread environmental awareness and encourage recycling, double-sided printing, and reducing waste on a day-to-day basis. Rachel H. Mak ’10, a student captain of REP, applauded the college for getting rid of the printed CUE Guide and emphasized other contributions that students can make just by reducing waste. “Right now Harvard has a recycling rate of 55%, and that’s pretty good,” she says. “But we could definitely work...
...China looms ever larger in the global consciousness, anything we can glean about its leadership is especially valuable. There's one moral in Founding, however, that Beijing probably did not intend. Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's son, is briefing his father about his fight to rid the KMT of corruption and injustice. Chiang praises his son's idealism - and gently advises him to desist so as not to undermine the KMT at a critical juncture in the civil war. "If you go ahead," says Chiang, "you lose the party." But, the Generalissimo quietly adds...
...advice to aspiring writers: "Turn off the charm ... get rid of your piffling similes ... eat meat, drink blood." (The Times, April...