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...celebrity world, is a exercise in minimalism rather understates the case. Visually speaking it consists of Jean-Do (as he prefers to be called) lying in bed, observing his radically limited world and recalling his life. What it has for a plot is Jean-Do devising a way to write a book. A therapist recites the alphabet to him, and whenever she mentions the right letter to him, he blinks his eye once (two blinks indicate a negative). Thus does he create, letter by painful letter, the best-selling volume of which this movie, written by Ronald Harwood...
...says another. The common wisdom is that office romance--usually furtive, often forbidden--can be career suicide. But these thoughtful authors make a persuasive case that it's smart for today's single co-workers to mix: "We think office romance has gotten a bad rap," Losee and Olen write. "We think its time has come. In fact, the greatest pool of potential mates is not online, not in a bar, and not on a blind date. It's in the office...
Sure enough, house prices stopped rising in 2006, and now banks and brokerages are taking huge write-downs tied to the mortgage-backed instruments that kept the Ponzi-loan machine oiled. Economists are furiously debating whether we're on the brink of a full-fledged "Minsky moment," in which lending shrinks sharply across the board. Nouriel Roubini, an NYU economist and a widely read forecaster, got a lot of attention in November by professing to see risk of "generalized meltdown of the financial system of a severity and magnitude like we have never observed before." That sounds bad. But even...
...It’s probably a good thing to stop some artificial channel,” he says, referring to the high number of Harvard students who go on to write for the magazine. He adds that he hopes to use the move to recruit a more diverse staff...
...index creators insist their device is not intended as a "name and shame exercise," but rather as "an incentive" to do better. "Benchmarking works through peer pressure to motivate actors to improve efficiency, correct deficiencies in the policy framework and possibly even avert damage to a country's reputation," write the HRI report authors. After all, these countries have all agreed on the principles on which they're being assessed. As Annan tells reporters in London - he's now president of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva - "Only promises kept are promises that matter...