Word: expressions
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Then there are the firms that are not traditional banks that are starting to line up for bailout funds. Earlier this week, American Express filed to change its status to a bank-holding company, which would allow the credit-card giant to apply for TARP funds. Analysts estimate that AmEx could receive as much as $3.5 billion in federal aid. GE Capital is also reportedly looking into applying for a Treasury investment. The troubled finance unit of industrial giant General Electric could receive as much as an $18 billion investment. What's more, a number of members of Congress...
...fatwa - now more or less lifted - did not sour Rushdie from his conviction that religion is necessary to writers, if only because it provides the only available language on certain topics. "I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words," he said. "For instance, 'soul." I don't believe in an afterlife or heaven or hell, yet there isn't a secular word for that feeling that we are not only flesh and blood. Whether you're religious or not you may find yourself obliged...
...style. Castro Samayoa hoped to provide a forum for such creativity in organizing the exhibition. He says that at Harvard, “People are thinking and engaging with voting. People are voicing their opinions in classes and dining halls. We wanted to give another venue for people to express themselves artistically.” Along the walls of the Center’s well-used rooms, student submissions alternate with the historical photographs to continue this dialogue. In the photograph “Rallying” by Jennifer J. Malin ’09, young voters crowd around...
...matches occur—for example, if two participants express mutual romantic interest—the pair will be e-mailed...
...Wednesday with “An Evening with Bebe Neuwirth,” where she casually talked about her career and her work. Neuwirth considers herself first a dancer, having begun ballet lessons at the age of five. “I’ve always been moved to express physically,” she said. “Dancing is primal, it’s what we do.” As she moved onstage later in the evening, coaching members of the class in their rendition of “Manson Trio” from...