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...text message on my cell phone came last Thursday as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave after more than six years in China, I was feeling nostalgic. This is not an easy place to be a journalist--phones are often tapped, sources sometimes harassed--but the economic developments that have transformed this country bring with them an infectious optimism. People's lives are getting better. The polite packer helping to direct traffic in our apartment told my husband he had helped move us into our flat three years...
There are still a few loose ends from the wave of prosecutions kicked off after the 2000 stock-market slump and the Enron meltdown. And some aren't as easy to wrap up as Quattrone's. Several British bankers, known in England as the NatWest Three, were hauled to Texas in July, after loud protests back home and a drawn-out extradition process. They face charges that they worked with ex-Enron CFO Andrew Fastow to siphon millions of dollars from a deal between their former employer, National Westminster Bank, and Enron. And in August, most of the convictions...
...text message on my cell phone came just as I was standing in my Shanghai apartment, surrounded by packing boxes and bubble wrap. Preparing to leave for Southeast Asia after more than six years in China, I was feeling nostalgic. China is not an easy place to be a journalist - our phones are often tapped, our sources sometimes harassed - but the economic developments that have transformed this country bring with them an infectious optimism. The lives of people in China, I reflected, really are getting better. The polite packer helping direct traffic in our apartment confided to my husband that...
...lock-up. They sent me an update: Charles had kept his leg. There was, of course, not the remotest chance I would ever get paid for those six or so hours of work in the middle of the night. I still have the Leatherman though, and the thoughts that wrap themselves around it every time...
...fact that tonight’s meeting was conducted almost entirely in executive session drew fire from some, namely Cambridge Civic Journal proprietor Rob Winters. He had urged residents earlier this week to “buy seven fat cigars, wrap each in a crisp dollar bill, and send one to each member of the School Committee to enjoy in the privacy of their smoke-filled back room...