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...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...
Smoke from ordinary cigarettes contains thousands of chemicals. Researchers suspect that if bidis are so good at delivering one or two, they're probably just as good at delivering the whole slew. That's enough to send the idea that bidis are safe, well, up in smoke...
...latest victory, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy said, “Obviously, I wasn’t surprised [by the selection]. There’s no question that he’s the Ivy League’s best player.” This fall saw Morris break a slew of Harvard records, many his own. He caught 90 passes for 1,288 yards—toppling last year’s school record-setting mark of 71 and 943. Morris also broke the school record for most catches in a game with 21 in the Crimson?...
...California Club joins a slew of state-pride groups formed by students from Minnesota, Hawaii, Texas and New Jersey...
...Then there's Stephen Friedman, the former head of Goldman Sachs. Widely considered a shoo-in to replace Lindsay, his appointment hit a snag this week while the White House worked through a slew of undisclosed "personal and professional issues." When President Bush formally named Friedman to replace Lindsay Thursday afternoon, it was only after days of speculation that Friedman's reputation for deficit phobia - he served as a director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group whose members oppose federal budget deficits - might have caught up with him. The White House maintained throughout the delay that they were only...