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Nick LeesonNick Leeson is a British investments trader whose actions caused the collapse of Barings Bank.Leeson was arrested for his role in the collapse on March 2, 1995. He was charged with making very risky investments on the Tokyo Stock Exchange losing $1.4 billion of United Kingdom's oldest investment banking firm, Barings. He was sentenced to six and a half years in jail in Singapore. He was released from prison in 1999, having been diagnosed with cancer of the colon. Leeson returned to the United Kingdom and published an autobiography 'Rogue Trader' detailing his acts. The book was later made into a film of the same name starring Ewan McGregor and Anna Friel[?].
at Japanese pigeon-vole. Really I could not wish for anything more
ten o'clock.html">clock. (They were wandering about in the dark shrubberies in our
try to induce us to go and drink some iced sherbets with them. It is at
the hill, in the gardens of the large pagoda dedicated to Osueva; but
moonlight we shall have a lovely view from the terrace of the temple.
Lovely, I have no doubt, but we had intended going to bed. However, be
front of Madame Tres-Propre's shop, who, for this late expedition,
with starfish, seaweed, and green sharks.
It is nearly eleven o'clock when we make our start. In the central
putting out their lamps, shutting the wooden framework, drawing their
ago, and our carts roll on through the black night. We cry out to our
can, uttering little shrieks, like merry animals full of wild gayety.
dashing and jolting over the old, uneven flagstones, dimly lighted up by
to time some Japanese, night-capped in his blue kerchief, opens a window
Or else some faint glimmer, thrown by us on our passage, discovers the
with our little gigs, we clamber up the gigantic steps, completely
of a spoiled and pouting child, ascends slowly between Yves and myself,
counting the endless steps.
She lays a great stress on the accentuations, as if to make the numbers
delicate and graceful figure seems strangely fantastic, and the darkness
almost without eyes.
This evening Chrysantheme and Jonquille really look like little fairies;
by dint of whimsical elegance and ingenious arrangement.
The granite stairs, imposing, deserted, uniformly gray under the
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