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...Beautiful," "Blue Hawaii"). Later, some of his biggest hits were emotive reworkings of plaintive folk songs from Italy ("Sorrento" became "It's Now or Never") or France ("Plaisir d'amour" morphed into "I Can't Help Falling in Love With You"). You might guess he was ignoring his core fans to play to their elders. But no, kids liked the slow numbers too, if only because it allowed them to dance body-to-body...
...core of this is, as Barings' Khiem says, a lack of information. It all started as a problem that seemed both predictable and containable: U.S. borrowers with bad credit history started (surprise, surprise!) defaulting on their mortgages. But that meant trouble for more than just the mortgage company or the bank that made the loan originally. Since the 1980s, individual mortgages have been packaged into bundles (so-called mortgage-backed securities) and resold to investors. Soon after came so-called derivatives, exceedingly complex investments that often trade based on the relationship between two or more underlying markets - mortgage-backed securities...
Pilbeam was a senior adviser to Gross during the 2006-2007 academic year and a member of the committee tasked with drafting a replacement for the Core Curriculum. He ended his interim stint as Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean on July...
...other, potentially more serious, issues. Governments are scrutinizing the four-year-old site as a possible haven for tax-free commerce, child-porn distribution and other unsavory activity. The dilemma for Linden Lab, the company running Second Life, is how to rein in its creation without alienating hard-core users. Fans love the site as a way to meet people and experiment in self-expression. And companies are drawn to these techno-savvy trendsetters who spent 22 million hours on the site last month. But some devotees are so upset by increasing commercialization that a group called the Second Life...
...time by almost any standard, Titanic, will be 10 years old this year. It made roughly $600 million in the U.S. and won 11 Academy Awards. That same year, As Good as It Gets, My Best Friend's Wedding and Good Will Hunting, all of them romantic to the core, were among the top 10 box-office draws. Since then, however, not one romantic drama has cracked that list. The only love story this century to be among the five highest-grossing movies of its year was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. So the Kidman-Jackman epic, known...