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...viewers should approach this western as they do a painting: at a thoughtful tempo. The scenery is meant to be savored by the viewers, not chewed by the actors. Much of the action in a western is in what would be downtime in any other genre. The pause before a man speaks suggests the world of options available to someone facing an armed varmint in a desolate space. The tensest scene in any western - two men staring each other down before the final shoot-out - is, in modern movie terms, a moment when nothing happens...
...should government (and by extension taxpayers) even be contemplating such action? The clearest explanation is probably that of Paul McCulley, a managing director of the money-management firm PIMCo, who wrote an essay last summer on "The Paradox of Deleveraging" that continues to resonate in financial and economic circles. When a debt-fueled investment bubble bursts, financial institutions that make their living off borrowed money (banks, investment banks, hedge funds) tend to want to reduce their leverage - their ratio of debt to equity. That's perfectly rational. But when everybody does it at the same time, big trouble ensues...
...speaking through her, and you hang on to its every word. As a person, you want her to get better, but as a reader, you can't get enough of the crazy. ("Mania is a glutton for attention," says Dr. Lensing, Sally's gifted therapist. "It craves thrills, action, it wants to keep thriving, it will do anything to live on.") It's the old Romantic lie of mania, that it represents a heightened version of the self, a genius too great to be comprehensible. But the siren is a monster, and its song is just an endless chain...
...Reserve did what it needed to do to protect everyday Americans from serious financial trouble. Beginning last spring with its facilitation of the sale of Bear Stearns, which left taxpayers in the hole for $29 billion, to the August bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—an action the Bush administration had repeatedly denied it would take in the past few years —to this week’s announcement of an $85 billion loan for AIG, the Federal Reserve has offered a steadying hand in our current financial crisis. Though one might argue that...
...from Massachusetts.” Kerry is heavily favored to win a fifth term over Republican Jeff Beatty in November. During the campaign, O’Reilly styled himself as a more principled and liberal alternative to Kerry, lambasting the senator for his 2002 vote in favor of military action in Iraq. He also argued that Kerry—who is well-known nationally while never having the local following of Massachusetts’ senior senator, Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56—should devote more time to representing the interests of his constituents...