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...valuable to look at the shares of GE through the eyes of common sense. The company has lost $300 billion of market capitalization in about a year. During the same period, Citigroup has lost $130 billion in market cap. Bank of America has lost $200 billion. Since GE's financial services business is not the majority of its revenue, the destruction of it market value seems extreme. Balance sheet jockeys would say that the trouble the market fears is hidden within GE's asset base and will jump out to eviscerate earnings soon. So far there is no sign that...
...sweeping changes, personality traits have not changed - people today are no nicer than the people in earlier generations. But it does no good to tell that to the helicopter parents. They are convinced that they are playing an essential role in their child's life. Perhaps their children will look back at these efforts with amusement someday...
What's On in St. Louis. The Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Mo., has a retrospective of mid-century modernist architect Eero Saarinen, who designed the iconic TWA terminal at JFK airport and, of course, St. Louis's Gateway Arch. "Shaping the Future" takes a look at the Finnish architect's work through full-scale mock-ups and a selection of drawings, models, photographs and films, through April 27. Washington University, Skinker and Forsyth Blvds., St. Louis...
...Castle is an unlikely home for a world dictator. Although posh and secluded, the compound's pale pink boxlike villas look altogether drab in this city of tycoons and high rollers. On Saturday, a few shirtless residents smoked cigarettes on balconies, clotheslines suspended from the railings. Potted plants unevenly line the estate's walls - behind them, perhaps, lies a vital part of the exit strategy of Robert Mugabe, the President of impoverished Zimbabwe...
Kate Allen, Amnesty's U.K. director, believes both the U.S. and British governments would benefit from such a process. President Obama has "made a tremendous start" by announcing the closure of Guantánamo, she says, but "his tendency will be to look forward. He actually needs to look back to what happened before he took office. Whatever the ins and outs of the case, the British government looks like it's covering...