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...Even among CDOs, Strata is more complicated than most. Unlike other bonds, it is not based on loans, but on bets other loans will go bust. Strata and its ilk were called synthetics, and could make up as much as a third of $1.5 trillion in CDOs issued in the past five years...
...used to buy Donald Trump's toilet paper. 2. I almost stole someone's cat last weekend. 3. I would do dirty, dirty things to Tina Fey. 4. I have always felt destined for greatness. So far, this has been a total bust. 5. My favorite activities when I was young were building forts that spanned the whole playroom, dancing to Michael Jackson and throwing my brother down the stairs. 6. I work "That's What She Said" jokes into every conversation. (See TIME's list of T shirt-worthy slogans.) 7. My grandmother once told...
...problem, because Whedon has set a challenging goal. Whereas his past series had ready-made good-vs.-evil setups, Dollhouse is morally nebulous. Sometimes we're rooting for Ballard to bust the Dollhouse, sometimes we're rooting for Echo's handlers and protectors in the organization that pimps her out. (Harry Lennix is sympathetic as her conflicted bodyguard, and Fran Kranz amusingly skeevy as the in-house tech geek.) Pulling this off means getting the audience to connect with a lead who is not, in the usual sense, a person, which may be more than Echo--or Dushku--can manage...
...Davis personified the idea that the point guard sets the tone for the rest of his team, in every way. Apparently more concerned with accumulating highlights for his And1 Tour audition than with the game itself, Davis followed a simple formula over and over again: receive inbounds pass, bust out several unnecessary crossovers and spin moves, find enough space to force a bad shot, release...
...early 2000s, Kerr said. Newly wealthy individuals transferred funds to foundations, only to see the value of these gifts plummet with the stock market—thereby rendering them unusable. The current economic crisis is in some ways a “repeat of the doc-com bust, but more widely spread,” Kerr said...