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...former general manager of the Bank for International Settlements - a sort of club for central bankers - recently blasted the IMF in an article that described its performance as "less than evenhanded or effective," and accused it of being asleep at the wheel in the months before the current economic turmoil. "The IMF was uncharacteristically disengaged from the debate on growing economic and financial vulnerabilities during the run-up to the present crisis," Knight argued, adding: "It offered little concrete policy advice to countries on how to manage once the crisis broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International Monetary Fund 2.0 | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

Cantor Fitzgerald has plenty of experience dealing with crisis. Perhaps that's why the firm, which is best known for bond trading and looked like it wouldn't survive after suffering devastating losses on Sept. 11th, is weathering the recent financial turmoil better than most. Cantor is hiring and expanding into new businesses at a time when many of its larger rivals are struggling to keep their doors open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cantor Fitzgerald, Victim of 9/11, Thrives in Recession | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...Ganley created Libertas to campaign against the E.U.'s Lisbon Treaty - a so-far failed attempt to get countries to sign up to a re-write of a European Constitution - in Ireland's referendum last June. He is credited - or blamed - for the 'no' vote, and the subsequent institutional turmoil that continues to haunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...went to MIT. And majored in physics.Today she is a world-renowned physicist, president of the American Physical Society, and the incoming Dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, a role she assumes at time of great financial turmoil for Harvard’s schools.But colleagues say Murray’s take-charge attitude and experience in management at Bell Labs—where she served as a senior vice president while it was also experiencing budgetary woes—are strong qualifications for the challenge of building up the fledgling school...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEAS Dean Breaks Barriers | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...firmness that is balanced against his reticent, or perhaps suspicious, visage; the portrait recognized the inner life of its subject, which was something almost entirely new. Earlier, Michelangelo’s unfinished statues of slaves for the tomb of Pope Julius II also begin to reveal the psychological turmoil of their subject, but this Venetian school takes the artistic display of psychological depth to the next level, with massive canvases of deep emotional power, making possible the work of El Greco and Caravaggio.The exhibition is not arranged by strict chronology but rather thematically, and the most central room is devoted...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Titian Tintoretto, Vernonese Awe at MFA | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

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