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...British operative (Gemma Arterton) named Miss Fields - in the credits she's ID'd as Strawberry Fields - and her job is to relieve Bond's sexual tension and add to the body count. The other is Camille, who has lost her mother and sister to one of the chief brigands. For Bond, then, she is both a mortal threat and an emotional tonic. Silently sulfurous with vengeance scenarios, she and Bond can purge their demons in the only acceptable action-movie fashion: by killing the men who were in some way responsible for the deaths of their loved ones...
...that spirit, here's a quick rundown, on a scale of 0 to 10. Opening credit sequence: 5 - the usual semi-abstract woman's form, liquid and monumental. The song: 4 - Jack White and Alicia Keys duet on a power-pop number that's tenacious but not delightful. Chief villain: 6 - Amalric, who normally plays underdogs, hasn't the stature of a Dr. No or a Salamanca, but he's got the evil sneer down pat. Bond girl: 9 - Olga Kurylenko is more than OK. Fight scenes: 9 - frenetic, if familiar. And Bond - 7: Craig certainly fills the frame...
...Frank Bruconi, chief economist in the New York City comptroller's office, estimates that lower Wall Street pay and payrolls will reduce the city's income tax revenue by $368 million alone. Then there's the ripple effect. Many other types of companies throughout the city, from law firms and accountants to corporate-car services and dry cleaners, rely on Wall Street companies and their employees for business. Bruconi says the general rule is that one job cut on Wall Street usually results in a reduction of a job and a half elsewhere in the N.Y.C. economy. All told, local...
...geekocracy. CNN's John King broke down election returns and poll figures on a touchscreen "magic wall," while NBC guru Chuck Todd crunched numbers on what resembled an electronic Risk board. Meanwhile, a raft of bloggers used the Web's strength--indulging obsessiveness--to create temples of poll analysis. Chief among them was Nate Silver, a baseball-statistics nut at whose FiveThirtyEight.com habitués debate weighting averages and tracking-poll internals until the wee hours...
...expect a do-over from the outgoing Administration, but not a paper-over that would rescue speculators. FDIC chief Sheila Bair has been pushing to use new loan-guarantee authority passed under the $700 billion banking bailout to adjust troubled homeowner mortgages. The plan would provide $50 billion from the government to be tapped as insurance for banks willing to adjust mortgages in a loss-sharing agreement. The FDIC would guarantee any losses on loans readjusted for homeowners who can show a 38% debt-to-income ratio, similar to what the FDIC worked...