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...reminder of the kind of benighted behavior that marked military takeovers in Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries - putsches that were too often aided by Washington - until democratic government became the norm after the Cold War. And it would all but nullify any justification that Honduras' epauletted brass - as well as the Supreme Court, which reportedly ordered Zelaya's arrest this morning - thought it had for the uprising...
...good-vs.-evil ilk. But Revenge is director Michael Bay at his purest: gleaming machines, humans that glisten with an omnipresent layer of sweat, dozens of locations and a story line so messy it borders on the abstract. He's even given one of the Decepticons testicles (brass, swinging). The whole experience is like having your nose pressed into Bay's manly armpit for 2½ hours...
When the financial giant American Insurance Group began wading into a world of new and complex financial instruments, putting hundreds of billions of dollars on the line, the company’s top brass was unconcerned.AIG had hired Gary B. Gorton—a financial economist at Yale—to use quantitative models to project the worst case scenario for the company’s balance sheet.Using historical data, the models predicted a rosy future not too-unlike the recent, prosperous past, giving AIG’s leadership confidence in entering uncharted markets.But by last September, one of AIG?...
...year but, as is his nature, started gravitating back towards baseball. He began working for a startup company that offered baseball analysis tools to Major League teams. One of the teams he pitched his product to was the Cardinals, and following a presentation Kantrovitz gave to the St. Louis brass in 2004, Mozeliak offered him a new career in the game he loves—in the front office rather than on the field.Taking on added responsibility at a steady rate, Kantrovitz excelled as he learned the ins and outs of various aspects of the Cardinals organization, from scouting...
...Even passionate Cirque fans - who love the company's acrobats and plate-spinners, its mix of traditional circus and modern theatrical sorcery - have wished that the clowns would be sent out, and the Mime Safety Board called in. Over the years, in seeming response to public disfavor, the Cirque brass has severely reduced the time given to clowns. They were prominent in early traveling shows like Saltimbanco and Alegria, then mere supporting players in Cirque's Las Vegas extravaganzas: the water show O, the martial-arts epic Ka and the Beatles tribute Love. The evolution was part of the company...