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...when the streets were deserted, the toll could have been much higher. The terrorists, as usual, were unknown. Shi'ite fundamentalists were the prime suspects, since most of the shops were owned by Christians, but the bombers might also have been Christian extremists or even thugs trying to shake down the merchants...
...breed of money managers shake up once staid pension funds
...twelfth floor of the Federal Reserve Bank building in Boston, LeBaron manages more than $10 billion of other people's money. Every day, LeBaron and his competitors make stock and bond transactions that can earn, or lose, millions of dollars for their clients. Their decisions can shake markets and send the prices of individual stocks into orbits or nosedives. For their skill and nerve, they receive salaries that sometimes run well into seven figures. LeBaron belongs to an elite corps of independent investment managers entrusted with an ever enlarging share of the pension funds for American workers...
...make choices which seem, in retrospect, to be foolhardy risks. The actions of a very small number of bank executives have put the American people in a real bind. Hopefully these same bankers will find their own was out of the mess without a major social and governmental shake up, like the Crash...
...interview, Bok explains that "the Faculty was getting a little set in its ways; sometimes you need to shake things up a little." He adds, "Animosity is complicity...