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...their presumption was right or not, it appears that Paulson and Bernanke believed that a failure at Merrill could have been an event worse than the banking catastrophes of the 1930s. This will remain an unanswered question. Would the common equity value of America's largest financial firms have gone to zero in a matter of days if Merrill had gone bankrupt? Would bondholders have suffered huge losses? Would the trouble have spread to even the healthiest financial firms...
...added. One unexpected result of the movie’s release is the popularity of García Bernal’s Spanish-language cover of Cheap Trick’s song, entitled “Quiero Que Me Quieras.” The song has gone on to become a hit in radios and karaoke bars in Mexico. According to Cuarón, the song choice was improvised. “One day I was driving my kids to school,” he recalled. The song then struck his ear from the car radio...
...Espada’s activism has not always gone smoothly...
...settlement. This is what we're for.' If he doesn't do that soon, [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is going to set the agenda, not us - and that will be a disaster. If we don't act now, any chance of a two-state solution will be gone. If he does act now, every government in the world will stand with him." Except, perhaps, the Israelis and their American supporters in the Jewish and Evangelical communities. Obama's willingness to override domestic politics for the greater good will be a major test...
...France's 2007 ban on lighting up in public areas, smokers had been declared persona non grata in Paris' Métro stations, where they risk hefty fines if they venture the merest puff. Now, however, even people who support France's crackdown on smoking feel things may have gone too far. This week, the Métro refused to run posters advertising the new Coco Chanel biopic Coco, Before Chanel, which stars Amélie's Audrey Tautou, saying the photo that depicts the fashion legend with her trademark cigarette violates anti-smoking laws...