Word: feets
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...weekend column, Dowd sought to highlight the irony of the Republicans' holding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire for not opposing Republican policies on torture aggressively enough. Interesting as this line of thinking might have been, it subsequently drowned in the backwash of controversy over her almost verbatim use of a 43-word paragraph that had already appeared in a column written by Josh Marshall on the political website Talking Points Memo. (Read about how to save your newspaper...
...always taking the staircase. I asked why he was afraid of the escalator. He couldn't explain it. Then one day, his mother told me that when he was 5 years old, a little girl was on the escalator just in front of him. She had bare feet, and no socks on. And her feet got mangled. It was such a dramatic experience that he never forgot it, at least in his nonconscious part of the brain. In his conscious part of the brain, he totally forgot about it. But whenever he saw an escalator, an alarm system was basically...
...have inevitably given rise to a debate in Germany about the policy of propping up the east. In 2004, an informal commission headed by Klaus von Dohnanyi, a former mayor of Hamburg, concluded harshly that eastern Germany was still far from being able to stand on its own two feet. One of the commission's key findings was that industrial policy should have been better coordinated and the money invested in a few promising centers, rather than being showered as if from a watering can across the economic landscape. But the fact remains that when the communist state collapsed...
...highest skill. There are visions here worth savoring, pure von Trier weirdo-magic, like the sight of Gainsbourg lying on the forest ground, willing herself to blend with the green. Through simple grace notes - photos from the previous summer of the boy's shoes put on the wrong feet, and, in one of several allusions to The Shining, a thesis notebook whose pages reveal handwriting that grows less coherent and into scrawls - the director deftly drops hints of madness in its early bloom. The woman is driven bonkers by grief at her son's death, but she may have been...
...quickly complete capital-raising deals. Yet, unlike Citi and BofA, none of these planned actions were included in their stress-test results. Citi's results also downplayed the damage to shareholders that will result from restoring Citi's common capital ratios. In order to put Citi back on its feet, the company's shareholders will be diluted more than any other public bank that was part of the stress test. When Citi completes its conversion of preferred shares to boost its common equity, current Citi shareholders will end up owning just 24% of the bank, down from nearly 100% today...