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...always happens when bubbles occur, naive neophytes, overconfident speculators and overleveraged money managers all leaned together on one side of the investment boat. When the boat became totally imbalanced it was enough for only a small wave-initially, the mere rumor of regulatory changes designed to cool China's stock fever-to sink the ship. On Feb. 27, China's main stock index fell 8.8%. Because of the huge leverage and increased computer trading that characterize modern finance, this sell-off triggered sharp declines in other markets from Russia to Malaysia, Japan...
...Power of a Positive No, Ury offers guidance on the flip side of reaching an agreement: how to deal with a situation in which you simply want to put your foot down. No is so often hard to say, Ury writes, because it highlights the "tension between exercising your power and tending to your relationship"--in other words, between getting what you want in the short term and keeping everyone happy for interactions down the road. People often err in one direction or the other, prioritizing either the relationship by saying yes when they long to say no or their...
...currently have three relatively obscure side projects going. Is there a thrill in escaping out of the spotlight and back into a regular old band...
Fitzgerald, 46, developed his sense of fair play while growing up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, with parents he has described as "hardworking, straight, decent people." His father, a doorman on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reportedly arrived early for every shift and rarely took vacations. Fitzgerald himself worked as a janitor during high school and as a doorman in the summers while attending Amherst College, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1982. He then received a law degree from Harvard...
...give the order to shoot until another rebel, Deolindo Barros, was killed. But less than 30 minutes after the gun battle began, the Australians-for reasons as yet unknown-stopped firing and pulled back, allowing Reinado and his surviving men to escape through the thick rainforest on the western side of the hill. Behind them they left the bodies of Barros, Natalino Pereira, Maranes Henrique and Calisto Tilman. The body of a fifth, unidentified man was found two days after the raid, but it was unclear whether he had died of wounds or exposure. Galucho's younger brother Nikson...