Just one lone senior trader was handling the unwinding of €50 billion of SocGen's trades? He must have been one stressed out employee, knowing the whole weight of his bank's continued existence as an independent was on his shoulders.

Onto something less serious... I have purchased a pair of tickets to watch Jude Law act in Kenneth Branagh's direction of Hamlet. When is this performance? July 21, 2009

I tend to plan real far in advance, but this is ridiculous! Still, given that tickets have been on sale since 10 this morning and that most of the dates have sold out, it needed to be done.