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...chairman of Anglo-Irish, the country's third biggest lender, had concealed from shareholders more than $100 million in personal loans by temporarily transferring the money to a building society. Amid public outcry over the scandal, the government nationalized Anglo-Irish and recapitalized two other banks to the tune of $10.5 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Angry Over Big Bailout of the Country's Banks | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...California Zephyr,” a song about traveling on a Western railway, opens the album, and uses simple, sunny guitar and Ben Gibbard’s lighthearted vocals to set the expansive, American West scene. A rambling, pleasantly repetitive tune, “Zephyr” conveys a good sense of movement, as one can almost imagine peacefully sitting on the eponymous train, humming this tune as fields and hills stretch by. The chorus—“I’m transcontinental / 3,000 miles from home / I’m on the California Zephyr / watching America...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...words that aspire to poetry, but largely remain trite and poorly-culled from the original text. Even if one didn’t know the lyrics were patchworked from a novel, it’s easy to tell that the songs are at least somewhat internally disconnected, as each tune fails to tell a complete story and doesn’t quite form a lyrically unified whole...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...latter's control. In an August interview, Rajaratnam denied the accusations and said that the divesture of shares was a strategic move during an unpredictable period. "There is no truth in the speculation that there were other motivations for my trimming a small amount of my overall investments. I tune out these noises and stay focused," he told the LMD, a premier local business magazine. Jafferjee could not confirm estimates that the arrested billionaire may still have investments as high as $100 million in the Sri Lankan market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Trader Has Long Faced Scrutiny in Sri Lanka | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...Black and White will have plenty of time to tune up for the spring season, with just a few weeks of fall competition left, culminating with the Foot of the Charles...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Crews Find Varying Degrees of Success on Charles | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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