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Each of these four companies has directors who chose not to ask hard questions and demand answers. How does a bank that was making $1 billion a year suddenly make $10 billion? How does a car company that nearly went out of business when oil prices rose sharply over three decades ago decide to reduce spending for the development of fuel-efficient vehicles...
...plans to subsidize contraception and beautify the National Mall. But even as the bill's backers were promising to whack out more fat when a House-Senate conference committee meets to resolve the two versions of the bill, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski was trying to add new deductions for car buyers, and Oklahoma right winger James Inhofe was teaming up with California left winger Barbara Boxer to throw more cash at highways...
...nation's first African-American Attorney General, Holder, 58, brings a unique perspective to the job. In the 1970s, New Jersey police pulled over his Plymouth Duster to search for weapons. The car contained nothing more than Holder, then a dean's-list undergraduate at Columbia University, and a group of black friends. It impressed on Holder the dangers of using the law as a blunt instrument, a lesson he applied years later in overseeing a racial-profiling settlement with the New Jersey state police. After Columbia Law School, he passed up high-paying jobs for a chance to prosecute...
...Once the car pulled into aesthetically grungy Park City though, the world of “Big Love” polygamy and temperance was quickly replaced with a veritable terrarium of the entertainment industry. Lay people and stargazers alike slipped down icy Main Street looking through windows where cozy, rising and falling stars sipped spiked coffee in corporate sponsored parties and gifting suites...
...what he calls “the evolution from problems to metaphors to stories.”Often this problem is loneliness. Before writing “Taxi Driver,” the film that catapulted him to national acclaim, Schrader spent a stretch of time living in his car, eventually coming to the chilling realization that he hadn’t spoken to another human being in weeks.“I’m like a kid in this steel box, this steel coffin, surrounded by all these people but all alone,” he recalled...