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If we could redo it all, we would try to negotiate and structure the guarantee differently. "There are other bargaining chips in lieu of or to reduce the personal guarantee that banks may not go out of their way to reveal," says Michele Dean, senior vice president at Bethpage Federal...
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Tom Hanks deserves our admiration, but is he really our "chronicler in chief" [March 15]? I've been reading World War II history for more than 50 years, and when I read that Hanks thinks the writing of academic historians is "often too dull to grab regular people by the...
The premise of Hanks as history maker seemed reasonable until I flipped the page and found a two-page ad for The Pacific, the miniseries from Time Warner's HBO. TIME's objective news judgment has been seriously compromised by an act of such corporate self-promotion.
Until Hanks turns his attention to the rest of history--say, Jane Addams and the settlement-house movement, the railroad expansion across the continental U.S., the women's-rights movements--it's the same old wars and battles, planned and fought by men, that bored me in school.