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Sosuke has cut his finger. Ponyo (voiced by Noah Cyrus, the 9-year-old sister of another Disney cash kid, Miley) heals it with her touch, and in briefly tasting his blood, she starts to become human. She also develops a taste for the food humans like. Mmmm, ham! - more savory than plankton. And in one of the film's many lovely vignettes, she enjoys her first sip of honeyed tea. Ponyo is accepted into the household by Sosuke's mother Lisa (Tina Fey), who works in a senior center; the boy's father Koichi (Matt Damon) is a fisherman...
...Cambridge 1 is probably the best first-date restaurant in the Square, and it serves a mean thin-crust pizza to boot. It won’t break the bank despite its gourmet, fairly healthy toppings (arugula, grilled steak, black forest ham), and it has that perfect fancy-but-not-too-fancy ambiance...
...chef-tutors have all worked at restaurants within Ducasse's international empire: chef des chefs Romain Corbière is from Le Louis XV in Monaco. They willingly pass on insider tips (like crisping bellota ham in a dry pan and using the fat to cook chanterelles to scatter over risotto). What's especially fascinating is the realization that, at the top echelons, it's all about using the very best ingredients at the zenith of their season, using every part of them, and paying fanatical attention to the details...
Would this intervention be flawlessly executed? Of course not. But if ham-handed pay rules drive risky, highly rewarded activities out of big banks and into smaller firms - if big banks become boring again - that might not be all bad, since smaller firms presumably pose less risk to the financial system...
...long as we're talking about ham-handed measures, we might also want to consider the most ham-handed pay regulation of all - progressive income taxes. It cannot be entirely coincidental that the great explosion in executive and Wall Street pay began about the same time that Washington was slashing taxes on the highest earners. The top federal marginal rate plummeted from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1988. (It's now 35%.) Some CEOs who are critical of the compensation status quo but who don't want government telling them how to pay people point to taxes...