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...here comes the fall's first big movie, and now we're in World Literature 101. Cart out all those Holy Grail legends stored in the attic of your memory and apply them to a four-handed love story. But the true lesson is more familiar: psychotic people are holy seers, tour guides into the nine circles of the urban soul...
...early years a cell's financier would cart the money to a local bank and wire it to Panama. The cartel had a personal banker there: First Interamericas Bank, owned by Gilberto and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela. In 1985 the U.S. government forced Manuel Noriega to close Interamericas and required U.S. banks to report all large cash transactions...
...great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
Critics doubt the wisdom of unleashing U.S. banks to expand into new areas. "This is the same cart-before-the-horse mentality that plagued the deregulation of the savings and loan industry," charged Henry Gonzalez, a Texas Democrat who chairs the House banking committee. "Let's set the speed limits and train the policemen before we open a new superexpressway for financial institutions...
...business, he says, was not businesslike. Third, Katz does not exploit the melodrama of the takeover. He largely ignores the boardroom fighting and has the actual bloodless coup take place off-page. His real subject is what work means, whether to a honcho or to a coffee-cart handler -- how a job becomes an identity, so that losing it forces a person not only to plan a future but also to re-evaluate the past. Job cuts are a standard TV-news topic. Katz proves that fiction can be far more evocative in making this loss of personhood really matter...