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...Yorker film critic David Denby writes book blasting snark. Whatevs...
...funds are disbursed, reflecting the frustration and anger of many members regarding the Treasury Department's handling of the funds. Still, many Democrats said on Monday that Obama's letter was not enough to convince them to vote against the resolution, which was filed by Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican. Most fiscal conservatives, like Vitter, opposed the TARP from its inception, and even those who voted to pass it in September have insisted that something more than Obama's vague promises is needed to win their grudging support...
Britain is a small island, with an elite whose members all seem to know each other. Proof, if needed, came at a recent London performance of Gethsemane, David Hare's new play about rot in British politics. The audience was silver-haired and well-heeled. On some seats lay coats by Hare's fashion-designer wife, Nicole Farhi. And sitting in the audience was Lord Levy, a prominent Labour Party fund raiser who is Jewish and made his millions in pop music. Levy is widely seen as the model for the play's Otto Fallon, a Labour Party fund raiser...
...Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter chimed in with concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative, which he noted was not covered by the disclosure requirements of the memorandum of understanding, and could therefore become a place for anonymous fundraising. (Foundation spokesman Matt McKenna says the Global Initiative is, in fact, in the process of being incorporated separately from the charitable foundation.) Hillary Clinton pointed out that all sponsors of the initiative are publicly disclosed. When asked by Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey whether she had committed to continuing to disclose such sponsors in the future, Clinton said, "That's correct...
...effort to raise awareness about New York Governor David Paterson's proposed cuts to funding for zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums, a group called the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) produced a video starring a spokesman posing as a zoo director. The zoo director explains to an unseen employee that Paterson's cuts mean layoffs are inevitable, but it's not until the end of the video that the unlucky worker is revealed to be the spiny porcupine. When he's done breaking the bad news to Wednesday, the director calls in the next doomed soul - who appears...