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...apple tree—the paragon of American wholesomeness—in a hallucinatory sequence at the start of the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.” The fallen symbol remains onstage for the bulk of the show as a subtle reminder of the decaying values “Sons” explores in this electric and moving production...
...document was thousands of pages long and that the Himalaya claim wasn't included in the summary of the report, which was boiled down for policymakers and received the most attention from reviewers. "Honest mistakes do happen," admits Benjamin Santer, a climate modeler at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "The bulk of the science is clear and compelling and rests on multiple lines of evidence," he says, not just one case...
Jones—the athlete with the heart of gold—provided a bulk of the inspiration for Oliver’s personality, while Gore’s relationship with his father, Senator Albert Gore, parlayed into Oliver’s difficulties with his own domineering father, according to statements Segal made in the 1990s, when Americans began to wonder whether Oliver Barrett IV was an alter-ego of Gore...
...Rather than going belly up, however, Asia's largest airline by revenue is getting the lift it needs to stay in the sky - but not without shedding some bulk. With the government keen on keeping Japan's largest carrier in business, JAL is now set to transition into a three-year, state-backed restructuring plan. Before JAL's filing on Tuesday, Transport Minister Seiji Maehara said, "The government wants to continue to support JAL to ensure its continued stable and safe operations." The Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corp. of Japan (ETIC), a quasi-government entity that buys the debt of troubled...
...other big difference is that while most residential mortgages are chopped into securities and sold, the bulk of commercial mortgages - and virtually all land and construction loans - stay on banks' books. Banks have leeway to delay recognizing losses on these loans - that is, they don't have to "mark to market." With banks facing total commercial real estate losses of $200 billion to $300 billion or more by Parkus' estimate, regulators have so far encouraged banks to exploit that leeway. (See the financial crisis after one year...