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...Thaksin, who owns a home in London, is also working hard to turn on the charm in his country of exile. On Aug. 4, Thailand's longest-serving elected Prime Minister (O.K., it was only five years) threw a street party in Manchester that drew thousands of revelers. City fans were treated to Thai delicacies such as red curry and stir-fried rice noodles, while karaoke-loving Thaksin lent his voice to a rousing rendition of the team's anthem, Blue Moon...
...took his first case to make him realize that this was not his public service dream come true. The assignment was heady stuff, a hedge fund insider-trading case that possibly involved one of Wall Street's top executives, John J. Mack, the current CEO of Morgan Stanley. Aguirre threw himself into it with furious energy, and was not intimidated going up against dozens of defense lawyers. That was until his bosses withdrew their support of how he was pursuing the investigation, abruptly reversed - and downgraded - his performance reviews, and then unceremoniously fired him on the last...
...disagreement quickly turned personal and ugly, at least according to his supervisors. Aguirre was insubordinate and abrasive, impugned colleagues' integrity, threw tantrums, was unprofessional in taking depositions, and generally "insufficiently cognizant of institutional protocol," supervisors later complained in congressional testimony. "Frighteningly, it appeared that Mr. Aguirre was pursuing a personal agenda bordering on vendetta," recalled Mark Kreitman, assistant director of the enforcement division, who was his former professor at Georgetown and one of his supervisors at the SEC. Aguirre claims all these accusations were concocted after the fact, and were never part of his paper record. He had just gotten...
Thaksin, who owns a home in London, is also working hard to turn on the charm in his country of exile. On Aug. 4, Thailand's longest-serving elected Prime Minister (O.K., it was only five years) threw a street party in Manchester that drew thousands of revelers. City fans were treated to Thai delicacies such as red curry and stir-fried rice noodles, while karaoke-loving Thaksin lent his voice to a rousing rendition of the team's anthem, Blue Moon...
...wasn’t long before one of the sailors threw up his hands in disgust and backed out of the crowd. He had been trying to give the smaller children candy. But every time he reached down to give it to them, eager fingers would snatch it all away. If he hadn’t stopped, he said, “I would’ve lost my wedding band...