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...staffers took stock of their losses, a cottage industry sprouted around them. Geoffrey Raymond, a painter who creates portraits of Wall Street titans - former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, ex-Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne - unveiled The Annotated Fuld, a large canvas of the embattled Lehman Bros. leader. Raymond rendered Richard Fuld with yellow brushstrokes, his eyes sunken and gazing into the distance, and invited passers-by to adorn the portrait with personal messages. Lehman employees were offered green markers; non-affiliated onlookers got black ones. Some scrawled angry missives: "The banks...
...much of an impact do you feel the 2007 Giants-Dolphins game in London had on European fans and do you think the popularity of American football in Europe will equal that of what it is in the U.S.? - Geoffrey Wowk, New York City
...education will be a more efficient use of time and money for cash-strapped students or if it will churn out unprepared, inferior litigators with fewer job opportunities. "You want that other year because you will be a better lawyer for the next 50 years with that investment," says Geoffrey Stone, law professor at the University of Chicago. Indeed, the one clear winner in the accelerated approach may turn out to be the school. With its new two-year program, notes Stone, "Northwestern gets more tuition with less teaching...
...Cory A. Booker: No, I really wanted to be a community activist. And I had some specific heroes at that time. People like Geoffrey Canada who is the head of the Harlem Children’s Zone—somebody who I really revered. He was able to create a great comprehensive community initiative. And people like Marian Wright Edelman were creating an entire movement around children. So I didn’t necessarily think that the best way to make change was through politics until I got on the ground in Newark...
...point of mania. Alec Guinness plays him with deft stiffness. His torture scenes are appropriately ghastly, and he resists the temptation to clown. William Holden gives his usual performance as a soldier who escapes from the prison camp and returns to blow up the bridge. Jack Hawkins and Geoffrey Horne are his fellow commandoes, Sessue Hayakawa is the blustering Japanese commandant, and all of them are unexceptionable...