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...pitch. On TV, his stabs at an intimate geniality showed the effort more than the effect, as if invisible wires were pulling his mouth into a smile. This was the Nixon so easily caricatured by political cartoonists and comedy impressionists; Langella gets all these elements but adds a certain poignant grandeur...
...heart of the plan that the Treasury is reportedly considering is the idea that lower mortgage rates will boost home sales and eventually house values. The plan hasn't been officially announced so it's not certain exactly what the Treasury would do, but one way it could work would be for the government to offer to directly purchase all newly originated loans by banks and mortgage lenders provided the loans carry rates of 4.5% or less. Proponents of the plan say the plan would be costless, and might even turn a profit. That's because based on current Treasury...
...just a second-order phenomenon. It does cultural work in the world.” Garber’s newest work, “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”—which is also the name of a course she is currently teaching—is certainly in line with the rest of her oeuvre. Garber says that her objective in focusing her attention on 10 specific plays through critical essays that expound on certain universal themes was to explore the interdependent relationship between Shakespeare and popular culture, especially by tracing the playwright’s influence...
...Mice and Men” to “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” helped him to cultivate an appreciation for all kinds of drama. “I think it shaped [my career] in terms of encouraging a certain promiscuity of taste,” Zwick said. “In the repertory theater one does Shakespeare one day and Sam Shepherd the next. And the idea that I might be interested in more intimate human drama and at the same time more epic and theatrical pieces I think is a legacy...
...worked on the study. The protein, produced by a longevity gene called SIRT1, is known to perform two main jobs in yeast cells, according to Philipp Oberdoerffer, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School and the study’s lead author. He said that one job is to regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can’t wait for a bunch of proteins [to get to the damaged area],” so the protein is “recruited from its normal site to fix the damage...