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...idea, according to a director's statement by Demme, is to pay tribute to Robert Altman's method - hand-held cameras, casual framing, a sense that the dialogue is more overheard than consciously crafted. But the result is a mess. Kym, in Hathaway's unsympathetic performance, is an annoyingly sour observer of the proceedings, a time bomb everyone hopes will not explode before the marriage is completed. Her father, played by Bill Irwin, is a pious twit, sublimely unaware of how thin and weak his family's values are when put even to the mild test this wedding's kerfuffle...
Fortunately, that sort of panic - which brought down British lender Northern Rock a year ago - was the exception. But the loss of confidence underlying it is every banker's worst nightmare - and every bank regulator's, too. At Bradford & Bingley, staff were given forms to hand out to customers explaining what had happened and why their money was safe. Elsewhere, it was national authorities who sought to reassure, most notably in Ireland, where the government announced an unprecedented $560 billion guarantee to cover the deposits and debts of the nation's six biggest banks for the next two years...
...also social stability, as ordinary folk watch their personal wealth evaporate. In China, the property sector accounts for 10% of national employment. Analysts believe that Beijing cannot afford a major collapse in the property market and will step in to aid developers and home buyers. Beijing already lent a hand to the faltering stock market in September by waiving taxes on some stock transactions to stimulate trading and ordering state agencies to buy up shares...
...team member Rutherford had briefly been a lobbyist for a TransCanada subsidiary. And stiffer resistance came from economic conservatives. Representative Mike Hawker says that by cutting Big Oil out of the pipeline, Palin's team "endangered the state's economic future. It's a classic case of biting the hand that feeds...
...been in other jobs before their joint great success. Now Freezy manages Flo's career, Four Million is in charge of logistics, one guy videotapes everything, and the gigantic Four Feet, who went to school for criminal justice and did four years in the Army, serves as the right-hand man. I figured my posse role was to be the one who looked really white in case we got pulled over by the cops...