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...quarter-point cut could come this week. A lower fed-funds rate is bad news for savers. Yields on things like money-market funds and short-term bank CDs, already under 2%, would drop further. Meanwhile, long-term rates, which the Fed does not control, could push higher as bond traders anticipate the return of inflation a year or two from now. That's bad news again, for bonds, because their prices fall as yields rise. Ethan Harris, economist at Lehman, expects bond investors to lose money during the next 12 months...
...high-camp, high-concept, highly stylized adrenaline rush of a movie--Diesel stars as Xander Cage, the ripped and tattooed un-James Bond. Like Diesel himself, who admits that when he was a child his "appetite for attention was insatiable," Xander is a self-starting, self-promoting charmer who is presumably unfit for any occupation other than star. Obsessed with dangerous exploits that require extreme athleticism, Xander sells black-market films of himself performing such stunts as stealing the Corvette of a right-wing Senator, driving it off a cliff and parachuting to safety. He's recruited...
...preview screenings, men cheer the stunts (see Vin outpace an avalanche on a snowboard!) while young women whoop and holler every time Diesel reveals his tattooed chest--which is frequently. The film explicitly sets up Diesel as the new postmodern Bond by killing off a nameless spy wearing a tux in the first scene. A sequel is already in the works...
...faces the fall of his empire; a Renaissance man stares down the Black Death; and a French classicist watches as his country is overrun by the Germans in World War II. The thread connecting these three men is an ancient philosophical manuscript that each man encounters, but the real bond among them is that they face a common paradox. Civilization has made them men of learning, but in order to save it they must leave their studies and become men of action. "Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine," Pears writes. And after all, a good Euro...
Like any James Bond parody, Austin Powers in Goldmember begins with a big chase scene: Austin on a winding road after a hot blond in a hot car. At the end of the scene, Austin turns to the camera--and we see it's not Mike Myers but...well, a major star who recently had dental work...