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...It’s titled ‘Salad Days’ because I noticed I have an interest in conjuring memory in my pieces,” Hook says. “Our culture seems to want to pinpoint an era of time. I feel like there’s a tragedy in that concept. Both humor and tragedy in that concept...
...watch. “Flash of Genius” is based on the true story of engineering professor Bob Kearns, who invented the intermittent windshield wiper only to see it stolen and produced by Ford. While the question of what it means to create something new is certainly interesting, there is hardly a duller medium with which to address it than a drama that focuses on windshield wipers. The tale of the little guy who tries to bring the big company to justice is not an unfamiliar one. In “Erin Brockovich,” Julia Roberts plays...
...Lenders are scrambling to keep delinquency and defaults in check. Some banks are extending repayment periods and converting credit-card debt into personal loans at slightly lower interest rates so borrowers can remain current. Under pressure from investors and regulators to improve their deteriorating asset quality, banks are also curtailing riskier lending, such as small-ticket personal loans, and making more of an effort to verify creditworthiness...
...fundamental reason for this huge bailout of the mortgage industry: The failed mission of the Republican Party from Reagan through McCain to deregulate America and to let the "market" prevail. It is now very clear that when the "markets" are allowed to operate willy-nilly, the self-interest of politicians indebted to lobbyists will prevail. It also does nothing to reassure the middle-class taxpayers that at least five of McCain's closest campaign advisers were lobbyists for these institutions until very recently. Jack Lee, Interlochen, Mich...
Despite your many kind offers, I have no interest in having a posse. From what I've gathered from watching HBO's Entourage, it looks expensive, claustrophobic and as if it would require pretending to care about your posse members' problems. Instead, I wanted to be in someone else's entourage. And not some overly serious movie star who keeps talking about the environment, since that would mean doing things that involve helping the environment. I wanted to do it right. I wanted to join a rap posse...