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...become a “landmark” civil rights decision on par with Brown v. Board (1954) and Roe v. Wade (1973), consistent with Boies’s and Olson’s ultimate vision. “We acted together,” Boies commented in The Wall Street Journal, to emphasize that this is “not a liberal or conservative issue, but an issue of enforcing our Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.” Indeed, as Olson echoed in Newsweek, “legalizing same-sex marriage” would...
...think it is a testimony to the quality of senior management at Merrill," says Gary Goldstein, a top Wall Street recruiter. "A good number of them have landed on their feet, and not been stigmatized by the actions of a few people...
Shortly after the financial crisis, many predicted that employees of firms that either failed or nearly failed would have a hard time finding work on Wall Street, given the poor economic conditions and the stigma of their previous employer. What's more, news that Merrill Lynch had paid out big bonuses despite huge losses on the eve of being bought out by BofA made the investment bank and its executives in early 2009 the poster children for bad behavior on Wall Street. (See the worst business deals...
...recent rebound in profits of financial firms has restarted the Wall Street hiring machine. And former executives from the firms that stumbled in the financial crisis are turning out to be hot commodities. Merrill Lynch is not alone. The failures of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns have produced hunting grounds for other firms as well. But either because Merrill was a larger firm or because it didn't have as big a role in sparking the credit crisis as Lehman or Bear, it seems that no firm on Wall Street these days is without a former top executive from Merrill...
...prove absolute Germanic superiority in all things, including mountain climbing. In the Alps there remains the stubbornly unconquered Eiger Nordvand (or North Face), the “last problem of the Alps.” The Eiger’s other nicknames include Ogre, or more pertinently, the Death Wall. Inexorably drawn to face their greatest challenge yet. The film’s intrepid heroes are the sprightly, fearless Andi Hinterstoisser (Florian Lukas), and his climbing companion, the brooding Toni Kurz (Benno Furrmann). For this duo, to conquer the Eiger’s North Face is to conquer the world...