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...wall. When Washington Mutual, which had a balance sheet less than a third the size of Citi's, went down, the FDIC immediately flipped the company to JPMorgan Chase. But marrying off Citi was not a viable option. "There isn't anyone to hand Citi to," says Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University's Stern School. "This is the King Kong of banks." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...half to bury any Harvard hopes for a big non-conference upset, downing the Crimson 76-63 yesterday in Harvard’s home opener at Lavietes Pavilion.“I thought we only played half a game, or two thirds of a game,” Delaney-Smith said. “It’s pretty disappointing when you play a team as good as Marist, because we could have definitely played with them.”Marist’s second-half run included eight straight points from guard Julianne Viani, who led the Red Foxes...
...idea of quitting collectively came 12 years after the landmark U.S. Surgeon General's report connecting tobacco use to lung cancer, low birth weight and coronary disease. Lynn Smith, a newspaper editor in Monticello, Minn., and a former smoker, wrote editorials in the 1970s urging others to quit. Smith, who once told the New York Times he started smoking "as a teenager by picking up butts from the street during the Depression," organized a local event called "D-Day," or "Don't Smoke Day," in 1976. The next year, the California chapter of the American Cancer Society sponsored a similar...
...Rosetta Reitz, 84, borrowed $10,000 in 1979 and created Rosetta Records to resurrect blues and jazz music from long-forgotten female artists such as Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey, producing 17 albums and returning their work to renown...
...professional website jumped from 200 to 100,000. Last month, Notchi only had seven days in which he did not appear on Japanese television. (This time last year, he only had seven days of work booked - total.) And he's winning some big fans. When Notchi met Will Smith on a popular afternoon TV show in August, Smith told him, "I will vote...