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A Treasury-sponsored review has today recommended substantial reforms to the structure and behaviour of banks' and financial institutions' boards, to restrict the freedom and the incentives for senior executives to take reckless risks. Sir David Walker, who is a senior...

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Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-81) was an epileptic of Tatar descent who trained as an engineer. His father was murdered by his own serfs who poured vodka down his throat until he drowned in it.

I don't like Dostoevsky. He is like a rat, slithering along in hate. DH LAWRENCE

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