10 June 2009: Afternoon By The Morning News — 10 Jun 2009 Bankers and economists on how to read the tea leaves when banks leave TARP. Even companies that repay the taxpayer money will not escape some form of oversight on their compensation structure. Chart of history's largest bankruptcy proceedings. Video: Gazprom's corporate anthem. Thousands of traveling salesmen spread word of the world's biggest brands in India, one remote village at a time. Anticorruption efforts attacked and dismantled even in Africa's most prosperous nations. Virginia's gubernatorial race to be viewed as a bellwether for Obama and Democrats. Op: Iran's election this week is inherently a sham; Lebanon is much closer to "free and fair." TMN's book blogger Robert Birnbaum goes bat-nuts about tomes regarding Cuba. Brief report of "a man who began hallucinating whole operas that would start every evening shortly after sunset." Punk-metal Giraffes frontman slightly restricted by his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. Pictures of public holes patched with Lego.
