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...Wall Street right now, it is ugly all around. UBS took a $3.4 billion write-down. Citigroup copped to $3.3 billion, and rumors started circulating that CEO Chuck Prince was headed for the door. Less than a week before his ouster, O'Neal explained the genesis of the malaise: "We just got too big in this area," he said. They simply kept going. In a culture where bigger only means better, it's almost hard to imagine it any other way. At least until the market comes along and rights itself...
...rapidly developing society. Surrounded by the capitalist trappings that China's leaders hope will sate a politically repressed populace - chic clothes, cell phones, fast-food wrappers - these lonely figures wear blank or artificially cheery expressions. "As a child, my classmates and I sang revolutionary songs, and we had to write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month. "Then, suddenly we were told, 'That's finished, you will love money now.'" Puffing on a Cuban cigar...
...that followed convinced him to leave China - but only after he'd used Western friends to smuggle his notes out of the country. "After the Tiananmen massacre, there arose a strong desire in my heart to do something for the Chinese people," Gao says. "That was my motive to write the book...
...they delivered that higher return with half the volatility of the S&P 500. If similar results are maintained, the industry will continue to attract billions of dollars from institutional investors. Even during the subprime turmoil, Read of CalPERS said it never crossed his mind to write the industry off. "We definitely did not see it as a time to leave hedge funds," he says. Maybe now, if hedgies can just clean up their acts a little, they can put their summer slump completely behind them...
...same time I want to help Harvard move into the world of digitized information.” To show how one could meld the e-book and the “old book,” Darnton told his audience about an electronic book that he plans to write which readers could then customize. Inspired by an archive in an old Swiss town in which he found—and spent 14 summers reading—50,000 unpublished letters, Darnton said he plans to write about book smuggling across the French border during the 18th century. The book will...