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...does what depends on which agency has the most authority for the task at hand. Paulson was the primary mover last fall in getting banks and mortgage companies to ease up on homeowners who faced foreclosure, while Bernanke dropped billions into jittery credit markets with a surprise rate cut. Geithner engineered the rescue in March of the investment bank Bear Stearns. In the summer, Paulson horsed Congress into giving him broad authority to seize troubled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--which he ended up having to use two months later. And when the three have run into interference from...
Bushnell's prose is breezy and careless, as if she composed One Fifth Avenue in a helicopter on the way to the Hamptons with a cigarette and a martini in her free hand and didn't worry too much if a page here or there flew out the window. (She describes Mrs. Houghton's death as a "swift and speedy end," as if those two words meant different things. And it's amazing that anyone could write, let alone publish, the following sentence: "That was the defining moment of great sex--when the penis met the vagina.") Bushnell also seems...
...instruction of this craft. Supported by the Office of the Arts and by Adams House, “Introduction to Printing & Book Arts” is a 10-week non-credit course that teaches the basics of the craft, including the physics of setting type, the mechanics of hand printers, and the challenge of pulling a pristine print. The class is the brain-child of Jacoby, and it will be taught by Michael Russem, a local printer and book designer who is the press’s first visiting artist. The class consists of a series of lectures and workshops...
...character may share genetic material with Jesus Christ. “So you’re saying I’m the son of Jesus Christ?” he asks. “More like His half-clone,” she replies.There are a handful of delirious revelations like this in the film—which is adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel of the same name—and they threaten to push “Choke” over the precipice of the adventurous and into the realm of the dubious and downright ridiculous. For most...
...season-ending meeting, the Crimson felt an all-too-familiar thorn in its side: a lack of offensive production. As junior goalkeeper Lauren Mann enters her third year as the cream of the league crop in net, the team’s struggles for goals and wins have gone hand-in-hand. The signs in the offseason and early going in 2008 all point to upward movement in the standings for Harvard. Last year’s talented freshmen and sophomores are a year older and wiser, and Leone recruited a solid crop of rookies—highlighted by early...