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After establishing a supposed hard line against bailouts over the weekend with Lehman Brothers, the government abruptly abandoned it Tuesday and announced an $85 billion Federal Reserve loan to insurance giant AIG. The explanation: AIG was deemed too huge (its assets top $1 trillion), too global and too interconnected to fail...
When The Women by Clare Boothe Luce opened on Broadway in 1936, Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times critic, snarled that it contained "some of the most odious harpies ever collected in one play." It nevertheless became a huge hit, despite the fact that there has never been any reason to question his judgment - not when the 1939 movie version came along, and certainly not now as we cringingly confront writer-director Diane English's completely miscalculated remake...
...Iowa More Trouble In Postville The Department of Agriculture has cited Postville-based Agriprocessors Inc.--a kosher slaughterhouse targeted in a huge immigration raid in May--for improper slaughter, on the basis of video evidence (above) supplied by PETA. The Iowa attorney general has also charged the company with more than 9,000 child-labor-law violations, alleging it had hired children as young as 14. Agriprocessors denied the allegations...
...have to hand it to travel writers who take on huge subjects. And traversing Europe, Russia, central Asia, India, southeast Asia and Japan by various modes of transport (mostly rail), then writing a 500-page book about the journey - with detail piled upon observational detail - is pretty huge. It takes guts, and some might say a bit of hubris, even...
...most accounts, Obama's time at the law school was a huge success. He arrived in 1992, fresh out of Harvard Law School, to juggle teaching courses in constitutional law and race theory. Within a few years, he had become a rock-star professor with hordes of devoted students, written a popular book and launched a political career as an Illinois state senator...