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...greatest hit, 1991's The Silence of the Lambs, was his high point - black and scary, but featuring a cannibal so smart and sardonic that you had no problem imagining Jodie Foster sort of falling for him - or at least having a wary dinner with him. This was Demme in from the fringe, operating in the mainstream - and about to lose his way with the ponderous, if well-meant, AIDS drama, Philadelphia. After that it has all been pomp and boredom - Beloved, The Manchurian Candidate, a documentary about Jimmy Carter, for heaven's sake...
...Real Estate, which has a massive $560 billion balance sheet and is a big player in the domestic securities market. As the governments stepped in, the message they sent to the public was supposed to be reassuring: Don't panic - your money is safe. Most European nations have some sort of deposit insurance that would reimburse account holders, at least up to a point, in the event of a default - although by their rescue actions the authorities sought to make it clear that it wouldn't come to that...
Fortunately, that sort of panic - which brought down British lender Northern Rock a year ago - was the exception. But the loss of confidence underlying it is every banker's worst nightmare - and every bank regulator's, too. At Bradford & Bingley, staff were given forms to hand out to customers explaining what had happened and why their money was safe. Elsewhere, it was national authorities who sought to reassure, most notably in Ireland, where the government announced an unprecedented $560 billion guarantee to cover the deposits and debts of the nation's six biggest banks for the next two years...
...sometimes venture out two to three nights a week, and some of these students drink on at least one of these nights. Recently, some Mt. Auburn final clubs have been heard playing loud music as early in the week as Wednesday. Our minds are in disturbia, indeed: This sort of behavior is an embarrassment. We must collectively cross our fingers that we will narrowly escape The Princeton Review’s list of top party schools next year, as we are teetering on the edge of being publicly exposed as a wild bunch. Officials at other Boston-area colleges have...
...evaluators more so than their own intellectual leanings. In addition, at least in the humanities, a strict grading system forces professors to create hard and often arbitrary distinctions between works that cannot easily be compared. In most academic environments, these concerns are outweighed by the need to provide some sort of clear metric of performance to potential employers or other educational institutions. If Harvard College, for example, were to abandon letter grading, it might be difficult for firms or graduate schools to know which students were qualified and which were not. Grades also provide a clear motivation to attend class...