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...which had already gone under (or were on their way) when the Resolution Trust Corporation took them over. Richard Kogan, a federal budget expert at the nonprofit Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, says that buying all those bad assets creates "the greatest possibility of giving the taxpayers a bath." But it also makes for quick and easy implementation. "When you go to a financial institution and say, 'We'd like to buy your bad assets,' they're going to say, 'Let's sit down and talk right this minute.' " Some on Capitol Hill, including Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts...
Havard Law School student David C. Lee stood at the scene of the fire dressed in a bath robe. He said that it was not the fire alarm but the fire trucks that alerted him to the fire...
...could eye my vanilla gelato to see how much longer it needed in the mixer and judge the doneness of my frittata by its firmness. After slicing watermelon every morning for breakfast, I could wield a knife as deftly as a pencil. I could give porcini mushrooms a sponge bath with my eyes closed. I knew the recipe for egg pasta by heart and they counted on me to make the daily batch of dough. By the end of my stay, my ankles were swollen, my forearms were burnt, and I couldn’t eat another bite of pasta...
...conflict, are rendered with that nearly vanished quality of France's classic bourgeois films: tact. Much of the pleasure an attentive viewer gets from Summer Hours - especially in the first 25 minutes, as Hélene hosts the family on one last bucolic weekend - is luxuriating in the milk bath of the film's good taste. I mean not just the lovely home with its period armoires and vases, but the full banquet of visual and aural felicities: the pretty grandchildren, the easy eloquence of the conversation, the Saint-Saens symphony of duck calls and birdsong, the perfect spiderweb...
...mixed with high-altitude herbs like spikenard that apparently calm the senses. After the scrub comes a slathering of Himalayan mountain mud containing fulvic acids. Known as silagit, it has been used for centuries as an anti-inflammatory agent and to improve circulation. The treatment is completed with a bath and either a head-and-shoulder massage (in Manila) or a full-body massage (in Bangkok). Massages are done to the sound of singing bowls - the standing bells common in Buddhist meditation...