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Tara could take a few tips from HBO's polygamy drama, Big Love (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), which returns in top form for Season 3. Its premise is just as outlandish: a multiple marriage among religious Fundamentalists in Utah. (On Big Love, a man has three wives; on Tara, a man has three and a husband.) But Big Love quickly settles you into its odd setting. The particulars of the Henricksons' lives--their intrigues and secrecy, yes, but also their familiar family dynamics and sincere faith--are presented, simply and unpatronizingly, as the reality of the show's universe...
...Besides, as Cosey adds, if all goes well, students will be getting cash incentives for their work soon after graduating - in the form of a paycheck. "Most of us wouldn't turn up at work every day if we weren't getting a check," she says. "What's wrong with starting the payment a little early...
...clear now that the Paulson team has made mistakes. Not enough of the TARP money that banks have received has been pumped back into the economy in the form of loans. And many question the judgment calls Washington made as the crisis escalated last fall. "No one has yet adequately explained why they bailed out Bear Stearns but not Lehman Brothers," says the senior investment banker critical of the government's approach. "That's not all on Geithner, but some...
...that the problem of piracy off Somalia's coast that has lately had the country back in the headlines. Piracy is driven by poverty, and the frustration at seeing the world's fishing fleets plunder your waters, while the global economy, in the form of heavily laden container ships transiting the Suez Canal, quite literally pass you by. Killing pirates, as an international armada now gathering off Somalia aims to do, doesn't address that. It might briefly deter them, but it doesn't address the root cause of the problem...
...projects in eight European countries, including Austria. Prominent historians, such as Hans Mommsen, a leading expert on the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany, and Wolfgang Benz, head of the Berlin Center for Research on Anti-semitism, are advisers to the project. "We want to give people the opportunity to form their own picture not only of the political events, but also of the era these events took place and the attitudes to life at that time, for example by reading the classifieds or the film guide," says historian Sandra Paweronschitz, the series editor. (See pictures of Europeans marking the defeat...