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...enjoying simple pleasures like walking his dog and playing chess with his friends, he had a rebellious streak. He briefly joined the Communist Party in 1945 and even contributed poster designs to the cause. "My art is valid only insofar as it is opposed to the bourgeois ideal in whose name life is being extinguished," he said. Hergé admired Magritte, and even bought one of his paintings. Magritte, however, saw Tintin as too colonial, Catholic and conservative. In the 1930s, Hergé drew the cover for a political pamphlet for Léon Degrelle, leader of the Belgian fascists...
...tangible assets (that is, assets, including loans, minus intangibles such as goodwill) by their tangible capital (the book value of capital minus intangibles). He got a ratio of 24.8. This is a worrying multiple: the leverage of U.S. banks in 1993, years before the start of the asset bubble whose excesses have now brought the world to its economic knees, was just 20. To bring leverage back to that pre-bubble level, Nomura estimates that U.S. banks need to either shed $2.8 trillion in tangible assets (by selling loan portfolios, subsidiaries and other holdings) or else raise $141 billion...
...Rodriguez wasn’t the only man named Alex to make headlines for performance enhancement this year. In April, The New Yorker told the story of a very different “Alex”—a recent Harvard grad whose Adderall habit was the centerpiece of a feature documenting the prevalence of neuroenhancers on campus...
...Coining the argot that would come to pervade discussions over the past few months is not foreign territory for Smith, whose habit of careful wording often frustrates Faculty members seeking meaning behind the lingo...
...some, Smith’s unflappable nature is a steadying force in the midst of a financial maelstrom. Faust praised her handpicked dean as one whose guiding hand has been “very steady at a time that has been one of great pressure.” Unfazed even as students and staff noisily protested outside the windows of University Hall during the year’s last Faculty meeting, the computer science professor has a distinctively scientific—perhaps even stoic—approach to the difficulties of the budgetary crisis...