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...repels. You want to grab his chin - Gordy is always in some sort of awkward motion - and hold him still so you can look into those clear, clean eyes of his and figure him out. Prasad directs to this unnerving fluidity; in the first scene in which we get a real sense of Gordy's character, he and Martine are talking in the backseat of the convertible as it whips along the highway and the wind tears the words out of their mouths. It seems Gordy needs the world to move faster than he does in order to simply...
...reflects the reality of this war, in its tactical reality and also in the psychological reality of it being a volunteer army? Which is something that none of those wars had, so none of those movies dealt with it. To me, those were the two burdens: it had to get to something about the psychology of people who choose to fight, because that's what these guys are - volunteers - and something about the nature of war being a war of bombs as opposed to armies massing on two sides of a hill and fighting over terrain, which is what those...
...December, Citi and the feds struck a deal to get the bank out from under the government's most stringent pay rules. Citi paid back $20 billion of the money the government lent the bank, and the Treasury Department agreed to declassify Citi as one of the firms deemed to be receiving "exceptional financial assistance." (See the best business deals...
...bank bailout, in which the government injected capital into financial firms in return for preferred shares and stock warrants. The list originally included AIG, Bank of America, Chrysler, Chrysler Financial, Citi, GMAC and General Motors. But in December, Bank of America and Citigroup struck deals with the government to get off the list. Bank of America raised nearly $20 billion from investors and paid back the government the $45 billion it was lent under TARP...
...streets of empty condos and "For Sale" signs, a couple of financial wizards have come up with a program they believe could breathe new life and buyer confidence into the decimated sector. It's called Sirius Value Protection - and works like a 'put option,' where buyers of new homes get the right to exercise a put that would require Sirius buy back the home at the original price after an eight-year period...