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...Lewis looks out over the expanse of Central Park - a panoramic view he calls the most beautiful in the world - and describes the last time he exercised that skill. About a month ago, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, Angelo Mozilo, called him to ask for help. The beaten-down mortgage lender, whipping boy for everything that went wrong in last year's mortgage meltdown, was facing rumors of bankruptcy after burning through an $11.5 billion credit line. Lewis had already invested $2 billion of his company's money in Countrywide, a sum by then worth half of that...
Much of Cloverfield's visceral force comes from its use of handheld cameras. By the time Blair Witch was made, unstabilized amateur footage was already visual shorthand for disaster, the vernacular of the apocalypse?think of the Zapruder film or the footage of Rodney King being beaten. And that was long before Sept. 11 and YouTube. Grainy, unstabilized footage gives us a sense that what we're watching is real?that the hand brake is off, that we won't be protected by the bland, safe conventions of a studio movie. "I felt like there...
...mystery has been that so few of those who cast ballots for him have heeded his call for action. On Thursday, the police allowed only women to leave the Kibera slum, and any man who came too close was threatened with four-foot-long wooden sticks. Many were beaten...
...Harvard’s first meet since the Georgia Invitational in early December, and the team has stepped up its training over the last month. “We set some goals for ourselves because it’s really difficult to swim when you’re beaten up,” Pangilinan said. “We wanted to set a pool record, work on our walls, and see three season-best times out of people.”The Crimson surpassed even its own expectations, with two pool records, four season-best times, and a slew...
Button, facing No. 1 Eric Tannebaum, had to retire after coming down hard on his hip, foregoing the rest of the day’s matches. No. 9 Caputo’s injury came against Tyrel Todd, who had beaten him earlier this season at the Cliff Keen Invitational...