Unqualified and Qualified Opinion Report

审计报告里面这一对词的非常有意思

没有发现任何material misstatements的审计报告，是Unqualified的。一定要发现一些问题，才是一个Qualified的审计。

这就好像是把审计放到和公司对立的位置上：一定要能找出问题的审计，才是合格的审计。

这让我想起在西安的时候听到的关于以前那里修土城墙的故事：

工人修好一段土墙以后，会有一个验收员过来，用一根铁杆往土墙里用力插，如果杆头能没入土墙，就被认为是不合格的工程而处死工匠；但是如果杆头没能插入土墙，就处死验收员...

是不是很像现在的会计和审计的关系，呵呵:)

参考文献：
http://quamut.com/quamut/reading_financial_reports/page/how_to_read_the_narrative_summary_of_an_annual_report.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditor%27s_report

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Lehman Building on Sep. 23th Local Time

一个王国的末日


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顺便贴一个胖mm转发给我的文章

发信人: zbytbj (大马), 信区: Career_Investment
标 题: 雷曼里的年轻人
发信站: 水木社区 (Wed Sep 24 15:26:07 2008), 站内

经济观察报 记者 刘兆琼 到了年底，就会有将近50万美元的额外奖金，加上近两年的存款，应该够在上海的近郊买一幢连排别墅了。可以把一直生活在江西郊区的父母接到上海来。上下两层，既可以照顾他们，又有自己独立的生活空间——这样她应该不会和我父母发生争执。
那时候，女儿小童会有个小花园，她总是喜欢抓那些大大头的绿蜻蜓和夜晚的萤火虫，把那些萤火虫放在手掌心，聚精会神盯着它们闪闪发光。连Mike（狗）也可以在花园里大小便，还可以给它盖个小屋，不用再担心每天牵着它上楼梯遭人白眼。

嗯，到了年底，或许股票还能再涨一涨，运气好的话，说不定还能把那辆跑了五年多的老别克换成一辆奥迪A4，车价那时候也会低一些。

……

凌晨一点钟，葛强（化名）坐在沙发上，右手将已经燃至尽头的烟蒂灭掉，眼睛刚刚从电脑上一份浙江某医药公司的财报上移开。他走神了5分钟。

已经熬了三个夜晚了。前几天与这家公司的宁波老板的沟通让他感觉到了一丝愉快，同时也领教了浙江商人的精明。这位民营企业家坚持不肯出让控股权，他希望借管理层重新组建的机会，把他的妹夫和表弟拉进来。他还提出，财务权要牢牢控制在自己手里。这些都让葛强心存芥蒂。

但是葛强似乎没有更多的选择。他必须在今年年底之前把手里的1000万美元投出去，否则他的奖金就会泡汤。他知道，这其实是一场赌博。当然，这不是他第一次如此下注，而往昔那些赌注多半是正确的。

7年前，葛强以全省第二名的成绩考入上海复旦大学经济学院，他和所有刚到这座城市的大学生一样，发誓要在这座城市里生活得比别人好。那时候，香港电视剧《创世纪》正在热播，几亿几亿的财富经常翻云覆雨。对于他这样一个来自中国县城的学生来说，那更像是在看一个和自己无关的故事。

不过，在这部长达100集的电视剧里，他第一次知道了有一种职业叫做投资银行。在那里工作的人，可以住最好的房子，开最好的跑车，在上流的法国餐厅优雅地吃西餐，即使工作休息的时候，公司都会提供免费的现磨咖啡。

七年的大学和硕士生涯，他彻夜地读数学和逻辑，努力将自己的成绩保持在全年级的前三名，他克服自己的家乡口音，按照李阳克里兹的方法每天清晨练习英语口语；他参与学校里组织的各类活动，并且在研二那年费尽心机地在导师的带领下，参加了新加坡的一次国际学术会议。他说，那七年，他只做一件事情——让自己Qualified（合格）。
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2003年的夏天终生难忘。三轮笔试，英文、数学、逻辑；四轮面试，部门经理、公司副总、人力资源部老总、国外老板。最后一次面试是在香港，三个人中选一个。题目很奇怪，"如果你被淘汰了，你能想到的第一件事情是去做什么？"那时候经过了长达1个多月的考试，轮番各地的奔波，每次都在回答各类奇怪的问题，他几近崩溃边缘，只是呆呆地说，"回家，倒头就睡。"没想到正是这样的回答让他幸运入选。面试官告诉他，做投行的人的生活都是机械的，不允许带有任何情绪，他的回答符合他们对人性格的考验。

也许生活总是这样，一半是海水，一半是火焰。他开始西装革履，但却经常由于领带、衬衫、西装搭配不当而遭到公司里女孩子的白眼，为此他买了10件一模一样的白色衬衫，因为白色什么都搭。他确实开始出入西餐厅，但几乎每次都是他熬了几个通宵后在最不想吃饭的时候；他在工作第三年就买了车子，但他经常在等红绿灯的时候就睡着了；他如愿以偿的娶了一个漂亮贤惠的妻子，但却经常一周都无法在醒着的时候说上一次话。

想起这些的时候，他湿了眼眶。他使劲地咬了咬嘴唇，又上紧了发条。还记得，前年参与国内一家企业海外IPO，熬了整整一个星期的通宵，又被项目负责人痛骂承销说明书里有两个错别字，他也是这样咬咬牙过来的。

几天前，美国总部传来消息，公司可能被重组，这让他有些不安。中午吃饭的时候，连公司的前台lucy都在大肆议论去向。若真是这样，该怎么办呢？如果被重组，上司肯定要换，年终奖也要受影响，到时候他是否还能负责医药这一块都很成问题；如果要走，倒也有几个猎头公司在找他，但是薪水方面一直谈不拢，如果公司真的被重组，这时候走，显然也不是最好的时机。

9月 15日的清晨，对葛强来说，和那些熬了无数通宵的夜晚一样，来得很宁静，甚至有些无法忍受。睡意慢慢袭上心头，他习惯性地打开电视，所有频道都在反复播放一条消息：雷曼申请破产保护……

这个今年34岁的年轻人，就工作在雷曼。

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今天照例又收到那条让人心痒难搔的短信

闲着没事儿念给公司的人分享，”我新从老家带来一些年轻漂亮的小姑娘.......16到18岁“

突然CC开始黄花鱼：“碰18岁以下不是犯法吗？”

一个学术seminar就这样开始了...(此处省略5万字)

最后胖胖总结陈词：“反正我知道肯定不是18岁”

一直没有说话的麻烦，这时候终于开口了，用它那饱经沧桑（其实是因为说普通话不标准）的声音悠悠的说

我终于可以回家了...

终于可以回家了...

可以回家了...

回家了...

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从院士增选看中国数学江湖(Zz)

我对新语丝这个地方其实是没啥好感的，对他们的各种言论更是非常的消息。

对于这篇，也是如此，我并不认为他们说的是真的（当然，也并不认为这就是假的，只是不了解所以不发言而已）。但是不管怎么说，这篇文章当作笑话看看，还是蛮好玩的。

想起当年那副扑克牌：
单鐏，张筑生，刘裕文，....
忻文兄，张伟
大姐姐
李智

呵呵


发信人: lovenatural (神), 信区: Mathematics
标 题: 从院士增选看中国数学江湖 新语丝
发信站: 水木社区 (Mon Sep 22 09:19:46 2008), 站内

发信人: soccercigar (请为我点上一根烟), 信区: NewExpress
标 题: 从院士增选看中国数学江湖 新语丝
发信站: 水木社区 (Sun Sep 3 13:46:39 2006), 站内

在1952年院校调整中，当时中国最强大的清华数学系和浙大数学系被砍，举国建设北大和复旦，其他重点高校的数学专业规模都很小，造成了这两所学校现如今在中国数学界的绝对垄断地位。
据统计，中国现有活着的数学院士24个，基本可以划分成北大、复旦和中科院三派。
北大帮由张恭庆领衔，校内有姜伯驹、文兰、田刚、王诗宬等人，中科院数学所的丁伟岳、刘应明、杨乐均毕业于北大，与北大数学系渊源深厚，相互呼应，基本是一伙的

复旦派谷超豪、洪家兴、胡和生、郭柏灵，加上中科院毕业于复旦的石钟慈，一共是5人。
中科院：丁夏畦、李邦河、林群、陆启铿、马志明、万哲先、王元、严加安、吴文俊、周毓麟。
杂派：陈木法（北师大）、王梓坤（北师大）、彭实戈（山东大学）、夏道行（美国）。
中科院看上去人很多，但是因为毕业于不同院校，又在中科院数学所的几次改革中相互算计，以至于彼此缺乏信任，所以实际上是一盘散沙，在院士选举过程中各怀鬼胎，往往被北大和复旦利用。其中，吴文俊、周毓麟、王元等人年事已高，功成名就，基本不参与世事纷争。马志明后来投靠了北大，林群因为院所合并一事与众人闹翻，剩下的几个年纪都大了，也不抱团，也不掌控重要的学术资源。
夏道行早已隐居美国，连院士选举都懒得回来参加，除去被剥夺选举权的资深院士吴文俊和周毓麟，以及隐居海外的夏道行，中国数学界真正有投票权的院士只有21个，其中北大帮占了8个，1/3强，而且都是年轻的少壮派，比如原中国数学会会长张恭庆，不仅把小舅子文兰弄成了院士，还隔代指定文兰为接班人，让其顺利的当上了现任会长，带领北大帮把持了中国大部分的数学资源；

复旦派谷超豪名气很大，但是手下的几个人水平有限，特别是把他老婆胡和生也弄成院士，让很多人笑话，加上远离北京，不具备掌控数学各类资源的权力，所以复旦派虽然人数多达5人，但是影响力跟北大比相距甚远。

中科院就跟不用说了，被北大和复旦各个击破，几届都没有人当选，很能说明问题。

院士选举每两年进行一次，每次一般是选2个数学院士，近几届院士竞选基本由北大和复旦说了算。
比如2001年，北大把在美国当教授的田刚进行包装，冒充北大全职教授竞选院士，结果被复旦识破，说这样的海外兼职复旦多得很，北大仗着人多势众，恐吓复旦，扬言如果复旦对田刚进行阻扰，北大就不给复旦的候选人投票，复旦一看与其争得鱼死网破，不如都捞点好处，于是两校相互妥协，最后北大的田刚和复旦的郭柏灵双双当选。田刚也成为中国科学院自成立以来第一个也是唯一的一个没有全职回国的海外院士，他的这个纪录至今没有被打破。虽然事后北大利用院士章程为田刚当选一事进行自我辩护，但是院士增选细则中却明确规定海外学者要想当上正式院士必须重点考虑其对国家的贡献，正是基于这一考虑，非全职回国的学者按惯例是不能参加正式院士选举的，只能参加具有象征意义的外籍院士的选举。（北大在田刚身上尝到甜头后，对其经验进行依法炮制，在03和05年两次推举非全职回国的佘振苏参选院士，但是北大在物理界不如数学界那样一手遮天，所以这两次都没有得逞。）
转眼到了2003年，北大数学系一举推出了两个候选人，其中的张继平呼声甚高，因为北大选票多，所以两人都进入了第三轮，这次复旦也派出了搞偏微分方程的洪家兴，南开在陈省身先生的支持下派出了重量级人物张伟平，此人得过国家自然科学二等奖，是国内中青年数学家中最优秀的学者，论文质量在国内首屈一指，加上有复旦毕业的背景，所以一开始志在必得，没想到北大仗着票数多，公开发飚，表示复旦系最多只能上一个，复旦派最经不住恐吓，只得全力支持谷超豪的学生洪家兴，而放弃了对张伟平的支持，陈先生得知这一消息后非常生气，他老人家只是外籍院士，没有投票权，虽然没有能力让某人当上院士，但是享有崇高威望，让某人当不上院士的影响力还是有的，于是张伟平和张继平pk是两人都没上成，反而是北师大搞概率论的陈木法捡了个漏，概率论方向多年没有出院士，所以这个结果大家也只好认了。
2005年，陈省身先生去世，虽然冒出个丘成桐，但是丝毫不影响北大继续把持中国数学界的各项资源，王诗宬的当选几乎毫无悬念，这一届的最大看点是南京大学的程崇庆是否能上，丘成桐认为除了张伟平，当今中国最优秀的中青年数学学家只有两个，那就是中山大学的朱熹平和南京大学的程崇庆，不过很不幸，程崇庆搞的东西跟北大的文兰是一个东西——微分动力系统，后者自然不希望国内再多一个动力院士，于是虽然程崇庆水平很高，但是缺少了北大的支持，最终仍然与院士失之交臂。空出的一个名额被山大的彭实戈占了，此人为何当选？内幕不得而知，但是可以肯定的是与北大的关系绝对不错
对2007年的院士选举做个初步预测，南开方面，陈先生已然仙逝，加上03年跟北大结下了梁子，张伟平这辈子恐怕也没有机会当上院士，除非得了fields奖，想必张伟平自己也很清楚这一点，所以05年连名都没报，07年就更不会了，否则岂非自取其辱？北大方面肯定会继续派张继平出马，没有南开横插一杠，张继平的当选恐怕也不会有什么悬念。而复旦在05年没有任何斩获，07年肯定会全力出击，可以预计，07年的两个名额势必会被这两个学校继续瓜分。
正如南方人物周刊采访国内某重点高校数学教授时提到的，中国数学有过很辉煌的历史，当年的华罗庚，苏步青，还有陈省身，不仅自己做出了世界一流的成果，而且人格高尚，为中国数学的发展指明了一些方向，带出一些好学生，这么多年了，没有像他们这样有威望的人来带着中国的数学往前走。现在的中国数学界被一群品格低下的人所控制，因为他们自己本身数学也不行，所以也打压有能力的学者，通过掌控中国的奖金和基金，扩充自己的势力，这二十年中国数学没有大的发展，原因就是这样。钱是投入越来越多，但是效果反而不如以前。北大心里也知道这一点，但是一到利益关口，就以利益为重。而且他们现在完全掌控着数学领域的院士选举，院士选举是重头戏，很多年轻人为了当院士，就低三下四，可以说是忍气吞声，包括做学问等，完全是人格都变了。

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昨天去见了一个北大中文的小mm

师姐安排的~

本来她计划去现场主持，结果因为有点事情走不开，变成两个人单独见面

地点，小红番薯，以前去过两次，所以不太害怕。

时间，5:30

基本都是闲聊，没什么特别正式的内容，比较有趣的事情是她很怕猫，自称是“天敌”－－果然是鼠年出生的ｍｍ:)

总的来说，是个很老实的小mm，各方面都中规中矩的

以上

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Who's the NEXT?

AIG的消息刚刚出来

一开市MS和GS又开始玩大跳水...

分别是接近40%和20%...这种搞法，不知道会变成什么样子

呵呵，暗爽ing

以下转载自：http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPyk2yvOjZuw&refer=home

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Plummet After AIG Takeover (Update1)

By Christine Harper

Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the biggest U.S. securities firms, tumbled the most ever in New York trading after a government rescue of American International Group Inc. failed to ease the credit crisis. The cost to protect against a default by the banks rose to a record.

Goldman fell as much as 26 percent on the New York Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley plunged 44 percent, leading financial stocks to the lowest level in five years.

``They're fish in the barrel, the short sellers have them targeted,'' said William Smith, whose firm Smith Asset Management Inc. in New York manages $80 billion, including Goldman stock. ``Morgan Stanley's probably going to wind up doing a deal, it's really a matter of survival.''

Executives at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley told analysts and investors yesterday that they see no need to combine with banks even after Merrill Lynch & Co.'s emergency sale to Bank of America Corp. over the weekend and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. bankruptcy filing. Goldman and Morgan Stanley said they have adequate capital and cash and don't have any pressing need to borrow new money. Spokesmen for both firms declined to comment.

Analysts including David Trone at Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller have said the demise of Lehman and Merrill may force Goldman and Morgan Stanley to pursue a sale or some sort of transaction with a bank, to gain a stable funding base of deposits and the confidence of the markets. The firms hold more than $20 of assets for every $1 in capital, making them dependent on lenders.

`Not Up to You'

``From what Goldman said on their conference call, they said they're going to go it alone,'' Smith said. ``But when you're leveraged it's not up to you, it's up to your trading counterparties.''

Morgan Stanley dropped $10.70 to $17.99, the lowest in almost 10 years, in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange at 1:45 p.m. Goldman slumped $32.92 to $100.09, a three-year low.

Credit-default swaps protecting against a default Morgan Stanley bonds rose 220 basis points to 900 basis points, and earlier traded at 925, according to broker Phoenix Partners Group in New York. Contracts on Goldman climbed 110 basis points to 530 basis points, Phoenix data show. An increase in price for the contracts indicates a deterioration of the perception of credit quality.

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer John Mack and Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein are trying to navigate declining investor confidence that prompted the emergency sales of Merrill Lynch and Bear Stearns Cos., and the bankruptcy of 158-year-old Lehman.

`Rumor and Fear'

The turmoil spurred the U.S. government late yesterday to lend as much as $85 billion to AIG to prevent the insurer's collapse.

Markets are reacting to ``rumor and fear,'' Colm Kelleher, Morgan Stanley's finance chief, said yesterday after the New York-based company reported better-than-estimated earnings for the third quarter.

Credit-default swaps on Morgan Stanley and Goldman rose for the third day. Contracts on Charlotte, North Carolina-based Wachovia Corp. approached a record reached yesterday. Contracts on AIG plunged.

Glenn Schorr, an analyst at UBS AG, said today in a note to investors that the market reaction was ``insanity.'' Goldman and Morgan Stanley aren't at risk of running out of money because they keep plenty of cash on hand and can borrow from the Federal Reserve and a consortium of banks set up over the weekend, he said, noting that both have enough capital to absorb any losses.

Locked Up

``If you have the liquidity and capital to withstand the storm, why should CDS spreads be having such a big impact on stocks?'' he wrote. He said investors must be reacting to concern that counterparties or clients will abandon the firms or that the credit-rating companies will cut their ratings.

``At the heart of these issues is available funding, all in funding costs and the inherent mismatch of short-term funding and longer duration, levered balance sheets,'' Schorr said.

Credit markets have been locked up since New York-based Lehman, which was the fourth-largest U.S. securities firm, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15, raising concern that other financial companies may fail. Investors have been unwilling to take on new debt risk and overnight lending rates have soared.

Morgan Stanley's plunge may add impetus to calls from Democrats in Congress for a broader effort by policy makers to address the financial crisis, including setting up a government agency to take on devalued assets.

``The private market screwed itself up and they need the government come and help them unscrew it,'' House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, told reporters late yesterday after top lawmakers met with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke.

Frank this week proposed considering an agency to ``deal with all the bad paper out there'' and get financial markets ``out of the box'' they are in.

To contact the reporter on this story: Christine Harper in New York at charper@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: September 17, 2008 13:56 EDT

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AIG Gets $85 Billion Fed Loan, Cedes Control to Avoid Collapse(Zz)

热闹，热闹

转自http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aw.hphkcbZ_o&refer=home

By Hugh Son, Erik Holm and Craig Torres
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Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc. averted the worst financial collapse in history by accepting an $85 billion federal loan and giving the government a majority stake.

The U.S. reversed its opposition to a bailout of AIG, the nation's biggest insurer by assets, after private efforts failed and the Federal Reserve concluded that ``a disorderly failure of AIG could add to already significant levels of financial market fragility,'' according to a Fed statement late yesterday.

``It's an enormous relief,'' said David Havens, credit analyst for UBS AG in Stamford, Connecticut. ``Nobody really knows what it would have meant if they would have been allowed to fail, but there was an enormous amount of systemic risk. The problem was, nobody really knew how bad it could have been.''

AIG gives up a 79.9 percent stake to the government and senior managers including Chief Executive Officer Robert Willumstad, 63, will give up their jobs. Retired Allstate Corp. CEO Edward Liddy, 62, will be AIG's new leader, according to a person familiar with the plans, who declined to be identified because the change hadn't been formally announced. Allstate is the biggest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the U.S.

The two-year revolving loan gives AIG time to sell assets ``on an orderly basis,'' the New York-based insurer said late yesterday in a statement. The U.S. has the right to discontinue payment of dividends to AIG's common and preferred stockholders, who are already reeling from a 94 percent drop in common shares this year.

Global Disruptions

The agreement, supported by the Treasury Department, may avoid wider chaos in world markets that threatened to engulf more financial companies. Industry losses could have totaled $180 billion if AIG collapsed, according to RBC Capital Markets.

``This should help to calm the markets in the short-term and hopefully provides AIG some time to get their house in order,'' said Michael Cuggino, president and CEO of San Francisco-based Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC, which manages about $3.8 billion.

AIG posted three quarterly losses totaling $18.5 billion. The insurer was pushed to the brink of failure because of a business that sold credit-default swaps, the protection for debt investors that plunged in value as the securities they guaranteed declined. The company covered $441 billion of fixed- income investments for banks and other parties, including $57.8 billion in securities tied to subprime mortgages.

The insurer's survival became uncertain after credit-rating downgrades on Sept. 15 threatened to force AIG to post more than $13 billion in collateral when the company was already short on cash. AIG couldn't raise money by selling shares after the stock plunged to less than $4 a share, compared with $70.11 in October, 2007.

Loan Terms

The Fed's loan doesn't require asset sales or the company's liquidation, though these are the most likely ways AIG will repay the Fed, central bank staff officials told reporters on condition of anonymity. Interest will accrue at the three-month London interbank offered rate plus 8.5 percentage points.

The Fed doesn't have an expectation of whether AIG will be smaller, nonexistent or similar to its current form at the end of the loan's term, the staffers said.

The Fed or Treasury will end up actually holding the AIG stake, the staffers said. The Fed bailed out AIG while refusing aid to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which collapsed earlier this week, because financial markets were more prepared for a Lehman failure, a Fed staff official said.

``It's extraordinary, I am floored,'' said former Treasury counsel Peter Wallison in an interview. ``No one could have possibly imagined this a few months ago. I can't imagine why the Fed would do this unless they were sure AIG's failure posed systemic risk. It does speak to the fears in the market.''

Greenberg's Redux

The rescue comes less than two weeks after the U.S. took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as rising mortgage defaults threatened the companies. The Fed stepped in after JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which were brought in to help assess AIG, failed to come up with a solution, according to a person familiar with the talks.

Liddy is currently on the board of Goldman, the company Henry Paulson ran as CEO before becoming the U.S. treasury secretary in 2006.

Willumstad, the former Citigroup Inc. president who left the bank in 2005 to seek a CEO position, was named to AIG's top post in June. His predecessor, Martin Sullivan, was chief for three years until being ousted after two record quarterly net losses. Maurice ``Hank'' Greenberg reigned at AIG for almost four decades until he was forced to retire in 2005 amid regulatory probes.

Unit Sales

Greenberg, who remains one of the company's biggest stakeholders, said the company needed a bridge loan instead of a plan that put the company under government control. An investor group led by Greenberg said in a federal filing hours before the rescue was announced they might want to buy the company or some units or make loans to AIG.

``Why would you want to wipe out shareholders when you just need a bridge loan?'' Greenberg, 83, said in an interview before the announcement. ``It doesn't make any sense.'' Greenberg declined to comment after the Fed announcement, spokesman Glen Rochkind said.

AIG may sell its stake in reinsurer Transatlantic Holdings Inc., its consumer finance division American General Finance, its U.S. auto insurance business, and its asset manager, analysts have said.

Aircraft Leasing

AIG's aircraft-leasing unit International Lease Finance Corp. may be bought by investors led by the unit's founder, Steven Udvar-Hazy, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed people. Udvar-Hazy has been in discussions with potential investors since Sept. 14, the Journal said.

The insurer rejected a bid for a joint investment by Allianz SE and J.C. Flowers & Co. on Sept. 14, said two people with knowledge of the offer.

Allianz, Europe's biggest insurer, and Flowers, the New York-based private equity firm run by J. Christopher Flowers, proposed the cash infusion to help AIG fend off a liquidity crunch, the people said.

Sabia Schwarzer, an Allianz spokeswoman, declined to comment. Flowers and Nicholas Ashooh, an AIG spokesman, didn't return calls seeking comment.

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二手版又有人转让mm

rp不错，居然在这个帖子被删掉以前被我看到了:)

唉，遗憾呀，错过这样的好机会

发信人: triarii (后备兵), 信区: SecondMarket
标 题: 转让和pp女生约会机会一个
发信站: 水木社区 (Thu Sep 11 18:28:56 2008), 站内

咳咳，那啥，简单点说。
上周某晚去唐会，和一个mm聊了会，还是我校友！她说她有bf,问我有没有gf。其实我有gf,都准备装修好房子明年结婚了，当时居然不假思索的说没有。然后就说给我介绍一个，说是top2大学老师，很pp。我当时觉得是聊天中的玩笑之词也没当真。
前天打电话给我，说想周末叫我和那目标女生去欢乐谷玩，我考，我当时马上回答说中秋可能要回家，要是不出去再打电话回去。
挂了电话很ft，一方面没想到她还能打给我，很意外；另一方面我是肯定不会去的啦，也没想继续，我mm多好啊。
由于话没有说死，而且不打电话回去也不礼貌，现在特转让这个机会。不管怎么样就当认识两个mm去欢乐谷玩一玩也不错嘛，mm还是nice的。
有意者站内，我提供电话，请在明晚之前回电，怎么说自己想吧，顺便帮我解释一下。报酬是和mm玩回来把pp在bbs上发一下，要是小气不想发那就算了。
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《1リットルの涙》

放到todo list上吧，貌似是部不错的片子

以下为引用----从某blog上找到的，也不知道是不是从片子里面摘出来的。


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妈妈，我能结婚吗？

开篇的日记，已经弄痛我的眼睛。如果生命只有一场恋爱那么长，你要不要享受婚姻的责任？如果生命是一场排演好的舞台剧，你舍不舍得把未来交给别人安排？如果生命是听的见倒数的短暂时光，你愿不愿意牵一个人的手终老。

妈妈，我能结婚吗？

我亲爱的男孩子们，不要嘲笑女生狭隘的梦想。那些为了做新娘努力终生的小女人们，是多么勇敢的傻孩子。没有多少人是敢于把自己托付给他人的。有人对你如此信任，为什么不敢尝试一下给两个人幸福？

妈妈，我能结婚吗？
没有珍惜爱情的疯子们，享受性爱的男女们，藐视婚姻的笨蛋们，听不见生命的倒数，看不见爱情的消短，感觉不到对方的努力，想象不出爱人的珍惜。不要结婚好吗？不要孩子好吗？为了目的好吗？放弃爱情好吗？打发寂寞好吗？有一天你会忘了所有，无论坚持还是放弃。

妈妈，我能结婚吗？
试试看，失去所有感觉。没有了性我们用什么支撑爱？用手吃力的去点击键盘上的字母，可以拼写出什么？是谢谢还是后悔？是我爱你还是请你离开？不可以说话的嘴和不可以动的四肢，支撑着尚可以思考的大脑。等待…等待…原来死亡是可以这么书写的。

妈妈，我能结婚吗？
看不见明天，虽然穿同样的衣服，走同样的路线，吃同样的东西，和同样的人，做同样的事情……但是，我们却无法准确的预测明天。穿同样的衣服却变天，走同样的路线却堵车，吃同样的东西却拉肚子，和同样的人却说了虚伪的语言，做同样的事情却不开心。我们活着，只在今天。下一秒，都是一个未知，不一定是奇迹，说不定是困局。

妈妈，我能结婚吗？
有人向你求婚吗？用漂亮的玫瑰和华丽的戒指，还有肉麻的誓言。答应他吧，考验这种事情是很无聊的。答应他吧，矜持这种事情是很无聊的。答应他吧，理智这种事情是很无聊的。每个人都有享受婚姻的机会，只是看你有没有相信，有没有努力。
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心悸与心动

如果害怕心悸，是否就只有拒绝心动？

还是应该痛并快乐着？

据说人并没有感知辣的味蕾，辣味其实是痛与烫的感觉

从这个意义上说，是否我从小就已经习惯了享受这种痛的快感了呢~~

有些事情可能确实是“只能尝不能说的滋味”吧

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《Friends》一句很喜欢的台词

很“CHANDLERISMS”，初听起来像个joke，有点涩涩的，却是回味起来却不免赞同-----苦笑的点头

And I'd like to believe that when the right woman comes along, you will have the courage and the guts to say "No thanks, I'm married."

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Chrome 进一步Google化

Google出了浏览器，一定是要拿来试用一下的

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