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...theater where I saw Burn After Reading, everyone laughed throughout. The Coen brothers are very smart about people who do stupid things. The scene in which the detective tries to speed away but has parked between two cars and cannot get out is right out of a Road Runner cartoon. Wile E. Coyote is alive and well! Judith Canaan, KALAMAZOO, MICH...
...University. However, finding itself a goal down after less than five minutes of play was not the start the team had envisioned. This beginning was just the first of the many disasters that the Crimson would have to weather throughout the night. Harvard’s long anticipated second road triumph once again eluded the Crimson (3-3-0), as it was crushed by the Terriers (3-4-2) by a score of 5-1. “I think we played a BU team that’s very talented but that hasn?...
...they actually recognized them, are enough to wipe out their capital reserves. If that's true it would make more sense for taxpayers to give them cash outright, and take a big ownership stake in return (with the idea of selling it off a few years down the road). The Swedish solution, they call it (and longtime readers of this blog know it was being discussed here long before anybody else in the U.S. was talking about it). The version of the bailout plan voted down in the House Monday seemingly would have allowed Treasury to take such action...
...plurality of banks tightening credit standards across the board. Add in anecdotal evidence - like Bank of America declining to increase lending to McDonald's franchisees even though the two companies have a long-standing partnership - and things do seem to be cascading down to Main Street, or whatever road is home to your local fast food joint. In August, 67% of small-business owners said they'd been affected by the credit crunch, compared with 55% in February, according to surveys by the National Small Business Association...
...It’s an imperfect compromise in an imperfect world,” he said. “This is only the first step on a long road. If the markets see that Congress is afraid to take this first step, they’re going to be very nervous...