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'You must stop this manhunt!'
On the first floor of Société Générale's giant glass tower in Paris' business district La Défense, the normally sedate corridors thronged with people in crisis management. Daniel Bouton, the chief executive of France's second biggest bank emerged to explain why the discovery of one of the financial world's biggest ever frauds - a rogue trader who lost nearly €5bn committing hidden transactions from his desk - was not all bad news. But the one question that eluded the big bosses of Société Générale was the issue all were trying to comprehend: who was this lone trader in his 30s? What motivated an intelligent, young man to commit a fraud five times greater than the infamous rogue trader Nick Leeson who caused the collapse of Barings bank in 1995? At Société Générale's head office, the men in charge shrugged their shoulders, saying they wouldn't name him.
Threading wins over clients at downtown Tempe salon
It may not be the only salon in downtown Tempe that relieves women of stray brows and smoothes upper lips, but the technique used at Jada Beauty distinguishes them from the crowd. Threading, an ancient method of hair removal that uses the precise twisting of a cotton thread to remove hair, is the process used at Jada, which opened last month at 350 S. Mill Ave., B201, at Hayden Square. Casa Grande native Alexis Smith owns the salon with her fiance Alex Nguyen and Nguyen's mother Oanh Phan, who founded the business and has practiced the Eastern technique for more than 20 years. .
Cody Rosen-Stone, Owings Mills, wrestling
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McCain's CPAC Suck-up
There are similar Disqualifying Statements in politics, words that will extinguish your enthusiasm for a candidate at the very moment when you are ready to swoon for him (or her). Here's one of those words: "Hagel." As in: Barack Obama has often said he'd consider putting Repbulicans in his cabinet and even bandied about names like Sens. Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel. Forget that this is a cliche appeal to hack Washington bipartisanism, that Sen. Hagel's reputation seems to have been built on the substitution of good looks and agonizing passion for coherent, articulated thought, that the press mainly loves him because he's always ready to go on television and stab his party in the back. Why would you promote Hagel at the very moment when his prediction that the Surge was "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam" appears to have been humiliatingly wrong? Disastrously wrong, potentially, if it had been heeded.
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