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...this journey, his art was at times an interpretation of his life as a gay African-American man, Harris said. “What does it mean somehow to... use art as a way to negotiate, to restructure the structure,” Harris said. The lecture featured a slide show of Harris’ past works, including early self-portraits, collages, and numerous photographs commissioned by the New York Times. He also played a clip of a performance piece about sexual abuse of gay males in prison. The exhibit and lecture were well received by those present...
Jobs, who says he's beat his pancreatic cancer, continued to look healthier. He's still skinnier than Reddy Kilowatt, but he was relaxed, and looked and sounded strong. Still, before taking questions from the audience at today's "town hall" style press conference, he projected a slide reading: 110/70. "This is Steve's blood pressure," the Apple co-founder said. "If you want to see it go higher, just ask questions about my health...
...hospital, the same amount of co-pay, and all the other technical words will be equal. And that's not what it used to be, and not what it is today. Insurance companies were already moving in that direction, but now we've made it so they can't slide backwards...
...necessary as those moves may be, the stock market - the most visible gauge of investor sentiment - has not been convincingly reassured. Why doesn't the news of government's quick and sweeping response stop the slide? "The news has got nothing to do with it," says Jeffrey Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond James. "What it is, is a sequence of events that have brought us into crash mode." Saut traces that sequence of events from the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which wiped out the stockholders of those institutions, to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which...
...number of Britons began moving their money to these apparently safer havens, but that's not what triggered the precipitous slide in bank shares on Oct. 6. Ironically, it was leaking news of the British government's still unfinished rescue plan that caused mayhem in the markets. The government is offering to help banks raise up to $88 billion of new capital, either by buying preference shares in the institutions or encouraging commercial sources to invest. Together with an extension of the Bank of England's special liquidity scheme, which will now make $350 billion available to banks in short...