"I, as a customer, am demanding a higher level of service," said the treasurer, Richard H. Moore, who as the scandal over Wall Street analysts' conflicts unfolded last year, led a push by state officials to impose ethical guidelines on investment banks.
The brutal realities from the ground often fail to make headlines, as the country is relegated to the shadows of more prominent Middle Eastern conflicts unfolding in Syria and Iraq.
As that conflict unfolds, Ana makes furtive love to her friend Elena at their convent school.
In the ring, the conflict unfolded in terms beyond simple racial caricature.
As each new conflict unfolds, audiences around the world feed on a steady diet of images depicting violence and suffering.
What impact this will have, beyond the immediate tragedy, on how the conflict unfolds is going to depend on who is responsible and how they respond.
The conflict unfolding in Iran is not between secularists and Islamists, and so religious opposition to Ahmedinejad is found even amongst the pious.
The rueful joke around town is that while Lebanon usually gets the rap for being chaotic, it is stable compared with the conflict unfolding around the region, especially in neighboring Syria, where the Assad regime began shooting protesters in March.
Saddam's Iraq, if left intact, would have witnessed its own version of the sectarian conflict unfolding in Syria, where the minority Allawite population continue to back the Assad regime, with the support of Shia allies in Iran and Iraq.
The latest conflict unfolded after last month's kidnap and murder of three young Israelis in the occupied West Bank and the brutal revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager by Jewish extremists.
