Word: robinson
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...Istanbul begins by looking out onto the Bosphorus. The city's colors and the way they melt away ugliness never cease to surprise me. I like to wander down Istiklal Street in Beyoglu early in the day, while it's still empty, toward Tunel, stopping off at Robinson Crusoe, tel: (90-212) 293 6968, for books; Lale Plak, tel: (90-212) 293 7739, for CDs; Umit Unal, tel: (90-212) 245 7886, and BNG, tel: (90-212) 251 9726, for funky, inspired clothes; and Takil, tel: (90-212) 292 1792 for artisanal jewelry...
...Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers By Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson; Crown Business; 368 pages...
...chief loaded up on overpriced property from the 31st floor of Lehman's New York City headquarters, his bond traders were downstairs shorting shares of mortgage brokers. Lawrence G. McDonald was one of those traders, and in his rendering of Lehman's demise--nimbly told with novelist Patrick Robinson--the bond traders are the smart guys, the real estate dealmakers are the bad guys, and the folks in charge are the idiots. What McDonald fails to note--even while illustrating it with an arrogant panache--is that Wall Street's egotism was hardly confined to Lehman's executive suite. This...
...Obama's picks, former Irish President Mary Robinson, has been panned in some circles for her role in coordinating 2002's World Conference Against Racism, otherwise known as the Durban conference in South Africa, which was widely viewed as discriminatory itself. Some of Obama's less controversial choices include the late gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, world-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, tennis great Billie Jean King, South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Senator Ted Kennedy and actor Sidney Poitier...
...film, many a desert-island castaway has put a message in a bottle and cast it out to sea, hoping it would someday reach land. Sorry, all you modern-day Robinson Crusoes, try that with a plastic bottle in real life, and your message will probably end up in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, bobbing in a floating collection of trash known as the Plastic Vortex. It's an accumulation of plastic debris swept into the Pacific - whether directly from beaches or flowing out of rivers - and carried by equatorial currents into a swirling pattern to one spot between...