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...being harassed by it - or by the tabloids, which existed in primitive form in those days, too. The Duchess, however, does not insist on such analogies; they're there for you if you want to find them. Mostly it trusts the intricacies of its story to hold your interest. And it does, with casual ease and unself-conscious style and wit. It has been some time since a period piece has breathed so easily...
...though, we're seeing the downside of this financial internationalization. Many of the mortgages and mortgage securities owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were bought by foreign central banks, which wanted to own dollar-based securities that carried slightly higher interest rates than boring old U.S. Treasury securities. A big reason the Fed and Treasury felt compelled to bail out Fannie and Freddie was the fear that if they didn't, foreigners wouldn't continue funding our trade and federal-budget deficits...
...Paulson was raised in Barrington, Ill., outside Chicago, where he developed an abiding interest in wildlife and the environment. (He was later Chairman of the Board of the Nature Conservancy.) He went to college at Dartmouth, where earned the nickname "The Hammer" as a member of the school's football team. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1968, he earned an MBA at Harvard before embarking on stints in the Department of Defense and as a White House aide under Richard Nixon...
...Obama does not want to be stereotyped as a race man like Malcolm X. In a media climate in which "working class" and "small town" and "ordinary" voters still mean white voters, angry white candidates can be "populists," but angry black candidates get tagged as "militants." Obama has no interest in trying to find out whether America is ready for an angry black man. He's more likely to try to send negative messages with humor, as he does in a new ad that mocks McCain's unfamiliarity with e-mail while featuring a Rubik's Cube, a prehistoric cell...
...students to take an optional third year in the workforce before returning to Cambridge.As a freshman, Segal was considering attending medical school after college. However, when he founded the Harvard College Entrepreneurship Forum during his sophomore year, his direction shifted.“I had always had a philosophical interest in business and entrepreneurship.” Segal said. “I wanted to learn more about these people who disrupt how we think about the world, and in the process, I became enamored with the entrepreneurial world and decided that I wanted to be a part...