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...Vikram Pandit, whether the firm will have to raise money because of government stress tests, and whether the bank can maintain the earnings it posted for the first quarter. So far this year, the stock has traded in a range of $7.46 to $.97, a short seller's dream...
...Andersen lays the blame for all our ills on Reaganism, the exuberance of the '80s and the American Dream itself. I beg to differ. The cause for our ills is not the American people and culture that created the greatest nation of all time. It is Washington. The lawmakers who now wag their fingers at the "evil Wall Streeters" were the ones who created the conditions for this crisis. We do not need to become a socialist utopia to dig our way out. We need brash, hardworking, risk-taking, ambitious Americans guided by prudent regulation by their government. Charles...
...option but to see Fighting, which is essentially Fight Club without Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, David Fincher or any pretense of artistry or ambiguity. Fighting is to Fight Club what its star Channing Tatum's one previous hit, the 2006 Step Up, was to every poor-boy-with-a-dream dance movie before it, from Saturday Night Fever to Save the Last Dance - which is to say, a worn retread, but with more bare-knuckle brawls. No matter: young guys' collective movie memory can be counted in the months; or maybe, like most everyone, they just like...
...devastation. Significantly, this scene of ruin is not specifically Greek or Trojan, modern or ancient. The set instead pays homage to the play’s presentation of personal history.As Evans writes in her Playwright’s Note, “Inside the driest desert is the murmured dream of the sea, and under the Greek poetry that immortalizes sacrificial virgins we can find living girls full of rebellion, botched home-made tattoos, and too-short skirts.” To be sure, the play’s plasticized playthings transcend both time and space to tell a more...
...Talent,” our former colonizers’ “American Idol” equivalent. By now, you’ve probably seen the all-too-perfect video of contestant Susan Boyle’s crowd-wowing rendition of Les Miserables’ “I Dreamed a Dream.” If you haven’t, perhaps you’ve heard her background story—hailing from Blackburn, Scotland, she is a middle-aged, unemployed charity worker who, after caring for her recently deceased mother, now lives alone with a 10-year...