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...year abroad: still likable, still funny, but with an added note of intrigue. Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a salesman in the Nerd Herd of a big-box electronics store. One day he gets an e-mail that implants his brain with the U.S. government's classified data bank. Overnight, he becomes a conscripted secret agent and a marked man. (Remember, people: Never open unfamiliar attachments...
...stasis at the very heart of the tumult that is love: "The rushes had stopped nodding, the breeze had stopped blowing through our hair, the stream had stopped flowing, the curdled clouds had stopped drifting overhead, the bird had stopped its call, the two children on the opposite bank had frozen in mid-gesture...
...Just yesterday came news that one other venerable investment bank, Morgan Stanley, was considering a merger with the commercial bank Wachovia...
...market’s downward spiral reflects a larger atmosphere of worry in light of the collapse and liquidation of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America at the beginning of the week...
...committee before leaving to start Blackstone with former Lehman chief executive Peter G. Peterson in 1985 with a $400,000 balance sheet. As of June 30 of this year, Blackstone had a total of $119.4 billion of assets under management. Light will accompany Richard Jenrette, the founder of investment bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada; and William Parrett, the chief executive of the professional services firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as one of four independent directors on the board. —Staff writer Prateek Kumar can be reached at kumar@fas.harvard.edu...