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...misconceptions you try to address here is that you thought Marilyn Monroe was a bad kisser. There's that quote of you saying, "Kissing Marilyn was like kissing Hitler."There was a scene Marilyn and I did [in Some Like it Hot]. They were screening the rushes and I was stunned by how good it was. It made me feel wonderful. Then all these guys who were watching the rushes with me started to needle me. "Hey Tony, where did you stick it? Did it work, or didn't it? Tell us what it was like." So I said...
...their deposits, money started to move to what looked like safe havens. Other countries had to respond. A few European governments have been far more thoughtful than the U.S. in figuring out what needs to be done. Even before the crisis turned global, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in his address to the U.N. last month, called for a world summit to lay the foundations for more state regulation to replace the current laissez-faire approach. We may be at a new "Bretton Woods moment." As the world emerged from the Great Depression and World War II, it realized there...
...effort required to address our current crisis is trivial compared with Britain repelling the Nazis. But the situation is getting more dire. Remember all the talk about how we have been "borrowing from future generations" with the federal deficit, consumer debt and so on? Well, it's been going on for more than a generation, and the future is now. There have been so many false alarms that maybe we can be forgiven for thinking this is another one. But no one is going to forgive those IOUS...
While the banking bailout may address the supply side of credit, it doesn't necessarily stimulate the demand side--where we all live. Across America, there is growing evidence that demand for credit--and everything else--is shrinking, with recessionary consequences. Two days after the Washington drama, the Fed's Beige Book report revealed that business was weakening everywhere, prompting the Dow to regurgitate 700 points. GM is shutting plants earlier than anticipated, idling 2,800 workers; PepsiCo, which reported falling sales in the U.S., is chopping 3,300 jobs worldwide. Demand for Samsung's DRAM chips is dropping...
...database is meant to address this age-old a cappella quandary. It’s unclear how exactly such disputes were solved before the database existed, but in this particular case, the Opportunes won—“Change in My Life” has been one of their signature songs for over a decade...