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...club of hapless traders who have squandered fortunes in global commodities markets?think Nick Leeson, who bankrupted 232-year-old Barings Bank in 1995, or the Sumitomo Metals trader who blew $1.8 billion in 1996?add a new member: Liu Qibing of Beijing's State Reserve Bureau (SRB), whose wrong-way bet on copper prices may cost the Chinese government tens of millions of dollars...
Today, Cabot traces the roots of his life at Harvard all the way back to kindergarten. Growing up in Dover, Mass., where he continued to live for much of his life, he befriended Robert Leeson, Jr. ’55 and Ralph B. Williams ’55, two fellow students at the Charles River School. The three friends eventually went their separate ways—only to be reunited, to their surprise, as Harvard freshmen under the roof of Straus Hall...
They stuck together through their undergraduate years, rooming together in Eliot House, taking excursions to ski slopes or football games, and chasing “women around to the extent that the women would allow us to,” Leeson remembers...
HIRED. NICK LEESON, 38, former expatriate banker in Singapore who brought about the collapse of the U.K.'s Barings Bank in 1995; as commercial manager of soccer club Galway United; in Galway, Ireland. Leeson, whose autobiography Rogue Trader became a best seller and was made into a movie starring Ewan McGregor, has been in demand as a speechmaker since his release from prison in 1999. The Galway appointment is his first new job in a decade...
...Photo Essay: Just days before the scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh, photographer David Leeson visited the Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial for TIME.com