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...Federal Reserve to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase to absorb floundering investment bank Bear Sterns. Summers said that the takeover was “as dramatic an episode for the U.S. financial system as we’ve had” since the stock market crash of 1987, but he called the decision “appropriate.” Summers criticized current Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr., for being too timid in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. While more caution could have helped avert the problem, Summers said, the same impulse...
...earth movie star. In the '60s I attended a meeting with colleagues in Hollywood, and we were in the Ambassador Hotel the night Barbra Streisand had her opening at the Cocoanut Grove. After the show there were stars galore in a hospitality room. Two associates and I decided to crash the party, which was easy. To make a long story short, I spotted Henry Fonda all by himself and said, "Hello, Mr. Fonda." His first words were "Call me Hank." I mentioned I had been raised in his home state of Nebraska, and we must have talked...
...earth movie star. In the '60s I attended a meeting with colleagues in Hollywood, and we were in the Ambassador Hotel the night Barbra Streisand had her opening at the Cocoanut Grove. After the show there were stars galore in a hospitality room. Two associates and I decided to crash the party, which was easy. To make a long story short, I spotted Henry Fonda all by himself and said, "Hello, Mr. Fonda." His first words were "Call me Hank." I mentioned I grew up in his home state of Nebraska, and we must have talked...
...systems of classification and official concealment used to keep sensitive information from the public.The filmmakers trace the precedent of the State Secrets Privilege back to a 1953 Supreme Court decision in which the widow of Robert Reynolds (an Air Force contractor who died in a then-unexplained plane crash) was told that the official accident report could not be revealed because it would reveal sensitive information.As it turns out, Reynolds wasn’t testing secret equipment as the government claimed. But in “Secrecy,” the secrets themselves are not the point. Although Galison...
...reported a surge of young engaged couples asking for a diamond's certificate of origin. Meanwhile, DiCaprio's greenie documentary The 11th Hour made just $700,000. "There's a 99% chance your film won't have an impact," says writer-director Paul Haggis, whose movies have tackled racism (Crash), euthanasia (Million Dollar Baby) and the mental health of Iraq-war veterans (In the Valley of Elah). "It would be hubris to think otherwise...