Word: shamings
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...size of Merrill's losses in the fourth quarter. But here's a question: What were BofA's risk managers doing? When BofA did its due diligence, it certainly went over Merrill's trading book. If the losses were tied to positions that had already been taken, then shame on BofA. If Merrill's traders made bad bets in the fourth quarter, it's worth asking again, Where were BofA's risk and compliance troops? Wouldn't you want to be all over these people, especially in Q4? Or maybe they all took John Thain at his word when...
...years, the Chinese Internet has pulsated with so-called human-flesh search engines, online mobs that track down, name and shame people whose behavior has sparked public outrage. In one prominent case in 2006, a Hangzhou woman who appeared in online photos and videos crushing a cat underfoot was located based on details gleaned from the images. She was vilified online and eventually lost her job. These digital tar-and-featherings have been criticized as invasions of privacy and have even sparked lawsuits. Earlier this month, Wang Fei, a Beijing man whose wife committed suicide after discovering his infidelity...
...what was once the highest-rated TV show except for the Super Bowl - it chose the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong films. It's sweet that Angelina Jolie will accompany her beau Brad (Best Actor nominee for Benjamin Button) to the ceremony, but a shame that she was made a Best Actress finalist for her work as the desperate mother in Changeling, a performance so miscalibrated that it yanks the story out of its period whenever she's on screen. (Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, took three nominations; Eastwood's much superior Gran Torino, none...
...unstable regions. There are genuinely illuminating sections, such as the one on the distinction between Deobandi and Barelvi Muslims and how an appreciation of those differences is vital to understanding the fractious debates about the nature of Islamic fanaticism that has sprung up in the West. It is a shame that the book is let down by a plethora spelling errors and inconsistencies, the lack of endnotes and bibliography, and numerous mistakes in the English transliteration of Urdu and Punjabi words. But then balti itself is something of a hash, and that doesn't stop it from being rather moreish...
...nature - some 80% of Americans now live in urban areas - a zoo provides one of the few chances to connect with the other species that share our planet. "This is where you go to learn about the natural world," says Calvelli. "We're living museums." It would be a shame to lose any of them, even in the midst of a recession - and, frankly, who wants to be the person to tell a lion it's being laid...