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Should Megabanks Be Broken Apart? - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 09 Dec 10
     
    "The economic crisis in Ireland has shown that "too big to fail" can quickly turn into "too big to save" as the Irish government tried to shore up faltering private banks, with catastrophic results for the entire economy. In a recent Op-Ed article, Thomas Hoenig, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, wrote that despite financial reform legislation, the biggest banks still control our economy and pose a serious threat. After the last round of bailouts, the five largest financial institutions are 20 percent larger now than they were in 2008. If large American banks run into trouble, would they ever be allowed to go bankrupt? If not, what can be done if they start to fail? As global financial institutions grow in size, how perilous is this condition for the U.S.? "
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Questions Grow About Ansel Adams Discovery - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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      anonymous on 16 Aug 10
       
      So history plays a methodological role in this debate...linking aspects of the negatives to events in Ansel Adams's life.
  • He took his discovery to members of the Adams family, who disputed his claims. Adams had been notoriously protective of his negatives, locking them in a bank vault when he lived in San Francisco. Would he misplace a box of negatives? “Ansel would never have done something like that,” said William Turnage, managing trustee of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, which owns the rights to Adams’s name and work.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Aug 10
       
      But does the estate "know" that he never lost any negatives? Why might it be in their best interest to say that he never lost anything?
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  • But in 2007 Mr. Norsigian and Mr. Peter, his lawyer, set about organizing an authentication team that included a former F.B.I. agent, a former United States attorney, two handwriting experts, a meteorologist (to track cloud patterns in the images), a landscape photographer and a former curator of European decorative arts and sculpture for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Aug 10
       
      How convincing is this crew of experts?
  • They concluded, without question, that the prints were of the sort made by Adams as a young photographer in the 1920s.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Aug 10
       
      How certain is this conclusion? Read it carefully.
  • Among clients listed on his Web site are three former presidents, including Bill Clinton, and numerous celebrities. It features photos of him with Hollywood stars and with Maria Shriver, the wife of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. A spokesman for Mr. Clinton said he did not recognize the dealer’s name.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 16 Aug 10
       
      Do these "clients" add legitimacy to the claims?
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