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...unlikely rescuer. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a $625 billion sovereign wealth fund run by the tiny Persian Gulf emirate, announced it was forking over $7.6 billion to take a 4.9% stake in the company. While Citi still faces difficulties, the cash infusion helped stabilize its plunging stock price and signaled to rattled markets that money was available to help subprime victims survive the turmoil...
...Japan aren't shielded. Song Wenzhou, who moved to Japan as a university student in 1985, founded a software business that made headlines in 2000 when it became the first company helmed by a foreigner who arrived in Japan as an adult to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's NASDAQ equivalent. He's now rich and dines with Japanese Prime Ministers. But Song recounts how he was recently stopped on the subway by police who suspected he was an illegal immigrant. "It's not just the Japanese government," Song says. "It's in the air, this anti-foreigner...
Bell comes of faithful stock: his parents met at Wheaton College, known as the Evangelical Harvard. But his first ambition was to be David Letterman. ("The birth of irony," he jokes. "The Betamax was a portal to another world.") Next came rock. As a student at Wheaton, he fronted a band that seemed poised to break nationally. When it didn't, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and apprenticed at a megachurch before founding Mars Hill just outside Grand Rapids. The town is notoriously well churched, but Bell saw an untapped audience: some were his music fans, others...
...Square harbors a multitude of bookstores whose stock and location span far more genres and square feet than the subsections of the Coop. Currently, there are more than 10 bookstores in the Square, itself just one triangular part of all of Cambridge—and this number is a new low. As recently as a few years ago, rents weren’t as high and there were even more bookstores dotting the Square’s storefront scene...
...Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it found no evidence that Lee, a former Seoul mayor and the presidential front-runner for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), participated in alleged fraudulent financial practices including stock-price manipulation in partnership with Korean-American executive Kim Kyung Joon...