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[Ratings] agencies were one of the motors of the crisis in 2008. Are they becoming a motor in the current crisis?

European central banker Christian Noyer

The management was rotten to the core and contaminated what was around it

A panel report on an accounting scandal at Olympus, referring to executives including former chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa (pictured) who resigned last week

I gave up my own destiny, I was no longer the master over my own appearance

Radio presenter Koen Fillet, who grew a beard in protest at Belgian politicians' inability to form a coalition government