Article of the week (24/2009): Billionaire Tax Felon Says UBS Lied in Pledge to Report to IRS

Posted on Jun 13, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is Billionaire Tax Felon Says UBS Lied in Pledge to Report to IRS by David Voreacos for Bloomberg. Following is a small excerpt: California billionaire Igor Olenicoff had already invested $200 million with UBS AG in 2001 when his Swiss bankers ushered him to an underground vault in Geneva. Olenicoff, a real estate developer with a taste for yachts and Russian art, saw floor...
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Article of the week (23/2009): The Crisis and How to Deal with It

Posted on Jun 7, 2009 in Finance This week’s article is The Crisis and How to Deal with It with Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros and Robin Wells. Following are excerpts from a symposium on the economic crisis presented by The New York Review of Books and PEN World Voices at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 30. The participants were former senator Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson,...
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Five Fingers

Posted on Jun 6, 2009 in Movies This week I saw Five Fingers starring Laurence Fishburne and Ryan Phillippe. I can’t believe I hadn’t seen this film before (it being from 2006) it’s just amazing. The movie is about a Dutch banker who goes to Morocco to sponsor and establish a food program for the needy but is captured along with his guide by local terrorists. He goes through horrible torture as the terrorist...
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Lesbian Vampire Killers

Posted on Jun 4, 2009 in Movies I love watching over the top daftly made B-Movies which don’t take themselves serious at all and are only made to make a ridiculous and enjoyable ninety minutes for people to watch. Lesbian Vampire Killers follows in the steps of Evil Dead and Shaun of the Dead by make a comedy which takes in and makes fun of horror films and their elements. The film is about two tossers that decide to go...
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Fired Up

Posted on Jun 3, 2009 in Movies Sometimes you come across these silly comedies you have a feeling are going to be shite but you decide to watch them anyway. Fired Up is one of these films, it’s a silly comedy about two football players in high school (starred by a bunch of 30 year olds…) who decide to go join the school’s cheerleader squad to go to cheerleader camp and pick up girls… It’s a comedy...
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