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...Eminem has a "fascination" with the movie Rain Man. He considers the Dustin Hoffman character a kindred spirit: whereas Hoffman boasted a facility with numbers, he is the rapper-savant. "This is all I know how to do," he says. "I can get in my car and drive, but I don't know how to get places." He sells himself a bit short: in addition to being a devoted father, he's a talented graphic artist, and the book contains a series of impressive sketches depicting the superheroes of rap (Tupac Shakur, 50 Cent, himself) and comic books (the Incredible...
...income has gone down. His firm has lost three projects over the past year as commercial developers canceled jobs. As a result, he and his wife make decisions that ripple through the economy. He cashed out of his 401(k) to pay bills. A plan to buy a new car? History. They took their son out of an expensive private school. Credit cards? They don't use them anymore. "Debit cards and cash only," says Rachel...
...when one ad painted the entire banking industry as "under a dark cloud.") To meet loan demand, TDECU is borrowing from corporate credit unions and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, but even then "we may not have enough money to go around," says Speed - especially now that car dealerships, jilted by the finance arms of auto companies, are flooding the credit union with calls...
...Grammy-winning documentary Westway to the World. The book reveals fresh anecdotes that aren't in the film, and affords a fuller recounting of others, such as Strummer's ham-fisted attempt at rioting during London's 1976 Notting Hill Carnival: "We were standing around this car with a box of Swan Vesta [matches] and it's one thing to say, 'Burn the cars and burn the ghetto,' but you try setting a car alight...
Then this summer, Obama talked about his grandmother again when he accepted his party's nomination in Denver. "She's the one who taught me about hard work. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well...