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...global marketplace; his dissolute nephew, rebelling after years of frustrated obedience; and his daughter, a young woman becoming keenly aware of her sexual power. Such drama could easily veer into soap opera, but Chowdhury uses his experience as a business journalist to turn the machinations of finance into the stuff of suspense, elegantly connecting the shadowy moneylenders of Mumbai to the gleaming towers of Hong Kong and New York City. In one set piece at a dinner party in a Hong Kong high-rise, Chowdhury cracks open the insular world of the Indian jet set, exposing their insecurities and pretensions...
Four years ago, Gillian Tett made the curious choice of moving to the capital-markets desk at the Financial Times--bonds, mortgage securities, derivatives. Arcane stuff, numbing stuff. Did she sense something? Tett eventually found herself covering the biggest financial story in a generation. Fool's Gold tells how a team at J.P. Morgan popularized credit derivatives, then pulled back worriedly just before the rest of the banking world was nearly destroyed by them. The physics of finance is complex, but Tett explains the world of derivatives as well as any book for lay readers ever...
...have also found that about a sixth of everyone who gets one winds up regretting it. Case in point: Bond sports two full sleeves' worth of intricate patterns, but admits there are a few designs on his arms that he'd like to erase altogether. "A lot of the stuff I had gotten as a youngster was very subpar," he says. (See pictures of Olympic athletes' tattoos...
...really close bunch.”Despite Ko’s accomplishments this season, it’s the camaraderie, not the accolades, that she will remember most. “The best part of the experience was meeting the people on the team, bonding, all that stuff,” she said. “I really cherish those moments.”—Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu...
...past Penn and Brown, 213-85 and 169-119, respectively.But Harvard was still less than pleased with its performances in the pool.“Starting in the beginning of the season, it took us a while to come together as a team—like to get our [stuff] together, basically,” said distance standout and incoming captain Alex Meyer. “A lot of things were not going as smoothly as they should have been.”The Crimson’s real test to prove themselves as a team came during...