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...down as one of the worst in global corporate history. The bank has stumbled from one humiliation to another, including ATM network failures, executive turf wars, lingering bad loans, eroding asset values and a stock price that has fallen 85% since its September 2000 listing. Last week came the bleakest news yet: on Jan. 21, Mizuho Holdings president and CEO Terunobu Maeda announced that the bank expects to lose $16.53 billion for the fiscal year ending in March. That would be the largest loss in Japanese corporate history, and is nine times worse than results the company predicted just three...
...winning goal came just when things were beginning to look their bleakest for Harvard...
...something amazing happened during those harrowing 24 hours. Sincock began to go through the grieving process, but far more quickly than others. At around 1 p.m., when his own world seemed bleakest, a friend with an alcohol problem tapped him on the shoulder and said he was ready to give up sobriety. Sincock took him aside and told him not to worry, that things would eventually work out. "When I began to help him, I got outside of myself for a few minutes, and the worry and despair was gone," says Sincock. He discovered in himself a compassion he never...
...first recruiting information session, OCS officials informed a somber senior crowd the job market is the bleakest they have seen in the past sixteen years. Even recruiters do not gloss over the fact that this will be a fiercely competitive year. OCS’s Judy Murray believes Harvard to be in a less precarious situation than most. At least companies are still knocking at the door, although they have less to offer and less with which to entice seniors. This is discouraging, but Peng remains confident that her years of hard work will...
...damage any careers or break any hearts. The book, which tells the fascinating story of the only woman ever to serve in the French Foreign Legion, is a rich, rewarding read. The Legion takes recruits from all over the world, subjects them to grueling training in some of the bleakest spots on earth and spits them out, five years later, with a French passport and a new identity. In Tomorrow to Be Brave, Travers recounts her service with the Free France Legionnaires in North Africa during World War II (the other half of the Legion remained loyal to the Vichy...