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...FDIC already had buyers lined up for the failed institutions by the time they were taken over. Troubled banks are generally closed on a Friday and given to new owners over the weekend. In most cases, the failed bank's branches reopen with a new name on the door the following Monday. The one exception is IndyMac, which the FDIC decided to nationalize rather than sell off immediately. (See the worst business deals...
...other side, the Israeli line producer Avi Abramov wrote on the blog after the production ended that he had been called up for military duty. "This situation is absurd," he wrote. "I've just spent three months working on a project where I felt the door opening? Now this illusion is over." What remains is a fine film and a new way of documenting a place we hear about often, but never really know...
...Princeton is knocking on the door of another Ivy League title, and no one can believe it. This is a team who was picked second to last in the Ivy League—now it is in second, just one game out of first. After beating Cornell once already this season, the Tigers are in control of its destiny: win out, and win the Ivies. A win tonight sets up a showdown with the Big Red on Saturday for the title. I want...
...choice: guitar, poetry, short stories, skits, rants, and more. These people come from far and wide, both geographically and socioeconomically. The Coffeehouse has attracted visitors from all over the country and abroad.No night is ever the same, as the performances vary based on whatever talent walks in the door. The unorthodox surfaces quite regularly, as jugglers, actors, and mimes grace—or shame—the stage. Even nudity makes appearances; while some performers tamely sing their covers or recite their original poetry, others are long on words and short on clothing. These wild performers have been known...
Before he was Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger would hold an annual summer retreat for his former theology students that focused each year on a single theme of acute concern. Three months after his rise to the papacy, Benedict XVI continued the tradition with a closed-door encounter in the Vatican's breezy summer residence, Castel Gandolfo. The topic chosen that first year with him as Pope was Islam, and the keynote speaker was Father Samir Khalil Samir, a soft-spoken, Cairo-born Jesuit and an expert on Muslim history and theology...