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...film is refreshingly cool about the scandalous activities it recounts. Its three screenwriters neither totally neglect nor totally embrace period language, so the dialogue has a pleasantly straightforward quality. Something similar can be said for Saul Dibb's direction. He's a relative newcomer to feature films, but he's neither overawed nor of a mind to be satirical about the stately homes his characters inhabit - or, for that matter, about their costumes, entertainments or taste in home furnishings. His manner is that of a reserved realist, and that keeps our attention focused where it should be - on the convolutions...
...nearly doubling the amount Uncle Sam owes to his lenders. While we're trying to get our heads around what amounts to the biggest debt transfer since money was created, Lehman Brothers goes broke, and Merrill Lynch feels compelled to shack up with Bank of America to avoid a similar fate. Then, having sworn off bailouts by letting Lehman fail and wiping out its shareholders, the Treasury and the Fed reverse course for an $85 billion rescue of creditors and policyholders of American International Group (AIG), a $1 trillion insurance company. Other once impregnable institutions may disappear or be gobbled...
...correction comes less than a year after the United Nations made a similar announcement, acknowledging last November that its AIDS-battling agency, UNAIDS, had overstated its estimates of the global HIV burden by about 6 million cases; that agency revised its numbers also based on newer and more accurate surveys. At the time, the U.N. came under fire from critics for inflating its estimates in order to exaggerate the urgency of the epidemic - and to spur bigger donations...
...happy Boston moved ahead on its own.” Over the past four years, Harvard University Dining Services has been decreasing its use of trans fats in its offerings. In the fall of 2007, HUDS completely eliminated trans fats from its menu. Debates about implementing a similar ban in Cambridge have yet to reach a conclusion. Several restaurants, including Grafton Street and b. good, already prepare their meals without trans fats. B. good’s General Manager Mike Mendez said that foregoing trans fats improves taste and lowers costs, as restaurants do not need to buy frying oils...
...greatest advantage of these new Smartcards will be watching your fellow Housemates hump the new card readers furiously to open doors without taking their cards out of their pockets. But will their humping be in vain? The Result: Hump away! The Through-the Wallet Test The Challenge: In a similar vein to the previous challenge, will backing your derrière into the card reader only result in failed entry? The Result: Back that thang...