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...Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...
...been accused of trying - though often failing - to buy elections. But Florida is the first state money really can buy. "Romney is the only one [of the four major candidates] who has the money on hand to go on the air in our 10 major media markets," says Daniel Smith, a professor of political science at the University of Florida. "For everyone else, it's cost prohibitive to run a media campaign in Florida. It's completely different from New Hampshire, Iowa or Michigan...
...what could be one of the biggest inside frauds in banking history, French futures trader Jérome Kerviel, 31, effectively created his own trading firm within the bank's market rooms, according to Société Générale CEO Daniel Bouton. "He succeeded in building this hidden firm, in building his positions by hiding them by other positions that were totally fictional," Bouton told reporters at a Paris news conference on Thursday. "That is what is so extraordinary about this case." Bouton's offer to resign was rejected by the bank's administrators this week...
...became cool for famous chefs to make burgers in 2001, when Daniel Boulud, James Beard Outstanding Chef of the Year, opened his casual DB Bistro Moderne and sold a $27 hamburger: ground sirloin stuffed with braised short ribs, foie gras and truffles. As much as I love Boulud's cooking, I found it disgusting--a gooey mess of indistinguishable, nauseating fat. I was, once again, alone: it now accounts for 30% of the bistro's food sales. This year, Boulud, Bobby Flay (New York City's Mesa Grill) and Thomas Keller (French Laundry in Napa Valley, Calif.) are opening burger...
...Blood has packed them in at a relatively few theaters since its Christmas day opening; as it rolls out for wider release, will it pick up steam or antagonize the mass audience? Even if Blood doesn't cop the top prize, as I uneasily predicted, it will win Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor award over everybody's favorite movie star (Clooney). DDL's performance is so manic, so intense, and he slips so deeply into his roles, that Academy members will be afraid to vote against him. He might come to their homes and devour their young...