Wall Street’s five biggest firms paid more than $3 billion to their top executives in the last five years, while they presided over the packaging and sale of loans that helped bring down the investment banking system.
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War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield Ecco: 886 pp., $34.95 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa
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A. Knopf: 1,276 pp., $37 The poet William Matthews once said of his classical counterparts
that they are “kept alive by a process of continual translation, an
enterprise that grows on itself like a coral colony.”
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