* John Carney: Confessions of a leveraged finance jerk

* John Gapper: Halt the Silicon Valley histrionics on SOPA

* Morning Call: U.S. futures flatten, London rises early, European shares climb and the Nikkei rallies.

* Big list: 50 biz profs you should follow on Twitter

* Landon Thomas: Will hedge funds sue Greece for losses?

* Felix Salmon: Don’t send Larry Summers to the World Bank

* Josh Barro: 30 years before SOPA, movie industry feared the VCR

* Luke Timmerman: Frazier looks to build biotechs for sale

* To the rescue: Carlyle’s Rubenstein gives millions to fix quake-damaged Washington Monument

* Photo of the Day: Capsized Concordia from space

* Tweet of the Day:  @delrayser: Drudge siren, Newt bombshells, and no Wikipedia? For the youngsters, this is what the Internet used to be like. Awful.

* Line of the Day: “A private equity firm creating jobs is like Adam Sandler winning an Academy Award — it would be nice if it happened, but it sure wasn’t the goal.”

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