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...seen all of AIG's dirty laundry. The government owned 80% of the company, and Geithner had just orchestrated AIG's most recent handout - its fourth, if you are keeping score, for $30 billion on March 2 - to prevent the teetering insurance giant from going over the cliff and taking the rest of the global financial system with it. AIG had already cost the taxpayers some $170 billion, mostly to repair the damage done by one of its units, AIG Financial Products (AIG FP), which last year alone piled up $40 billion in losses related to its dealings in complex...
...same metaphor is applied to the effect “Corbu Pops” had, the performance splashed the container off the table. Placed in a corner of the Carpenter Center lobby, the set was a large and angled board painted with a ghostly cliff face of melting mouths, eyes, ears, and noses. Melancholy organ music played in the background as the student actors wearing over-sized baby masks with large glasses struck blasé poses watching the audience watching them or contemplating a spot on the floor or the ceiling. Questions of the viewer-performer relation were further raised...
...said, before referencing the famous television advertising that the insurance industry funded to knock down the last major attempt at health-care reform. "We are past the 'Harry and Louise' moment. We are at the Thelma and Louise moment. We are in the car. We are headed for a cliff...
...that they fix the problem was the stick. At one point, he joked about Whitehouse's allusion during the breakout session to Thelma and Louise, a movie that ends with the protagonists dying in a blaze of glory. "If you actually saw the movie, they did drive over the cliff," he said, to laughter. "So just want to be clear, that's not our intention here...
...push in the right direction.Having grown up in New York in the 1970’s, Swanay fondly recalls memories of his early trips to Yankee Stadium, where he watched childhood idols like Thurman Munson, Bobby Murcer, and—Swanay’s personal favorite—Cliff Johnson play ball during the tumultuous yet exhilarating “Bronx Zoo” era in Yankees’ history.As Swanay’s passion for baseball developed, so did his fascination with numbers.“Like many kids, I taught myself division by figuring out batting averages...