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...Carrie Bradshaw, “Failure To Launch,” at the end of the day, is still a by-the-books romantic comedy that adds nothing new to the genre. Tripp (McConaughey), a womanizing bachelor coasting through his thirties, is still living in his childhood home. His fed-up parents (Kathy Bates of “About Schmidt” and football star Terry Bradshaw) hire Paula (Parker), a professional interventionist who makes men fall in love with her so that they will move out of their parents’ pads. Tripp and his buddies have it great...
...this activity has fed speculation that Dubai Inc. is a bubble built on debt. Certainly, Dubai is a borrower. "The big secret is that Dubai doesn't have much money," says Harry Alverson, managing director of the Carlyle Group. "Most of what they do is very leveraged." Yet borrowing to finance growth is what hot companies--and countries--do. That's why Carlyle is a partner. And why Alabbar is confident the Dubai miracle is no mirage. "The whole region needs to be served," he says, "and there is nobody there except Dubai...
...teacher Nina Garsoian used to tell me, “Ne drazni gusei! Don’t annoy the geese!” Larry didn’t get the message to stay away from the well-fed flock of lunatic leftist puritanical geese on the Faculty. Apparently he thought being the president of America’s oldest and most prominent university gave him the right to do something other than fundraising—even the right to exercise his First Amendment rights. So in the spring of 2002, lower Manhattan was still a blackened gash left by Islamo...
...large, one-eyed man named Vinnie” breaking his thumbs for counting cards, the gambling life has its downsides. “Quite a few times,” Liu says, he has had to “sit in a chair for 15 hours straight, fed only by cranberry juice...while a small army of chain-smokers shares their carcinogens.” But even if Liu’s card counting doesn’t win him glory, his teaching skills have earned him some enthusiastic fans. “I love that guy; he?...
...strong advocate for increased transparency of monetary policy, and [was] able [to] represent the Federal Reserve in important international fora.” In his letter, Ferguson highlighted some of the work the Federal Reserve focused on during his time there. “The environment in which the Fed made monetary policy was complex,” Ferguson wrote in his letter. “Perhaps less visible to the general public, the Fed also worked to enhance the transparency of monetary policy.” Ferguson was first named to the Federal Reserve in 1997 under former...