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...January, 10 of these unlikely crusaders gather around the bed in Su's bare-walled house to recount their misfortunes. Wang Hao displays a pile of photographs of houses rent apart at the seams. Zu Youming reads from a handwritten sheet listing the times he's been rebuffed by local officials. On the bed lies a petition with red thumbprints beside each signature. Suddenly, from below the house comes the startling sound of exploding dynamite. Su's home heaves upward and his windows rattle. "Don't worry," says the bathhouse owner. "That's just the miners, back from their lunch...
...Thomas Cook checks, a state-of-the-art counterfeiting operation complete with silk-screen equipment, ink stamps like those used by consular officials, and stacks of high-grade fake passports and other identity documents. Hamdani was tagged as the suspected mastermind. A Pakistani emigre, he had a rap sheet stretching as far as Brunei and was on the lam from a 1996 U.S. indictment for dealing in phony passports in New York...
...shiny baby grand piano stands in the center of the room, covered with sheet music and pictures of the choir posed with dozens of celebrities ranging from Bill Clinton to Michael Jackson...
...central bank. Then, after 18 years there, he left in January 2000 to run the Agricultural Bank of China, the country's most indebted and overstaffed lender. Shang, like his counterparts at other banks, boosted profits by laying off thousands of workers and cleaned up the balance sheet by writing off a slew of bad loans. Still, his brief tenure hardly distinguished him as a trailblazing reformer destined to head the CSRC. His ex-colleague says, "It was a political appointment, and not necessarily based on merit...
...light and heavily reliant on intellectual capital, Enron rewarded innovation and punished employees deemed weak. Those ideas were New Economy chic, and to some extent retain currency. Energy traders still use financial instruments that Enron pioneered in order to hedge against price swings. As for those notorious off-balance-sheet partnerships, "they can be used legitimately for financing projects in high-risk countries," says Michelle Michot Foss, an economist at the University of Houston...