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...just stopped in the middle of the discussion and said, ‘Let’s cut to the chase, we want to sign Noni,’” he recalls. “I was trying to be a businessman about this whole situation. Internally, I was exploding, jumping...
...Windscreens on police vehicles were shattered by large stones. Numbers on their side, the Fonseka supporters started chasing their attackers through narrow alleyways of the city center, while high-ranking police officers gave orders to launch water cannons and teargas. By about noon, the main road leading to the country's highest court resembled a small battlefield. The thuds of gas rifles echoed through the government housing complex nearby as police tried to stop Fonseka supporters in their chase. The clashes left eight injured, though none seriously...
Anger over the financial crisis got perhaps its most prominent outlet yet as a federally appointed panel grilled top bankers about their firms' roles in the economic downturn. On Jan. 13, the panel questioned the chiefs of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. The 10-member bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, created by Congress last year, is tasked with reporting on issues ranging from mortgage fraud to regulatory lapses by Dec. 15. Some analysts say the hearings are an important step toward reform; others call them a distraction, saying the causes of the crisis are clear...
...more adventurous bunch than their American counterparts. They experiment freely with structure and venture more often down the path of metafiction, debating the direction of a story even as their characters are entangled in it. ("The Basilica in Lyon," by Serbian writer David Albahari, is a mesmerizing dream chase along those lines.) Hemon says this is a reflection partly of his own editorial taste but also of the European publishing environment, which doesn't follow the American blockbuster model. "There's a lot of American fiction on the fringes that is very daring," he says. "But it is judged...
This week the largest financial firms in the nation have been reporting how they did in the last three months of 2009. In two words: not good. Citigroup and Bank of America lost roughly $8 billion and $5 billion, respectively. The credit-card and mortgage businesses of JPMorgan Chase, which reported their earnings last week, were a disappointment. Wells Fargo posted a profit, but nonperforming loans and related charge-offs both jumped. Morgan Stanley turned a profit in the fourth quarter, but it was less than what analysts expected. Even earnings growth at Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs somewhat slowed...