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Updated: Oct. 2, 2009 at 11:40 a.m. Confessions have become something of a staple for guests on late-night comedy shows. Stars as varied as Hugh Grant, Michael Richards and Kanye West have made appearances to talk about - and publicly apologize for - their mistakes. But the guy twisting in the spotlight on last night's Late Show with David Letterman was Letterman himself...
...some old warhorse has been revived merely to service the career needs of a Hollywood ego, or that a flimsy new construction has been trundled onstage just to see how much of the scenery can be chewed up. A Steady Rain,a new Broadway play by Keith Huff starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel (James Bond) Craig, raises another warning flag the minute the lights go up. The two actors are the only people on stage, talking directly to the audience, and the play is little more than a pair of interwoven monologues...
...Army sergeant and a nurse, Lewis grew up in Columbus, Ga. He joined the firm that would become Bank of America right after graduating from George State College in 1969. Early on, Lewis' cool demeanor and keen credit judgment caught the eye of the bank's chief executive, Hugh McColl. Soon Lewis became the wingman to McColl's swashbuckling merger ways. McColl would do the deals, and Lewis would parachute in to do the cost-cutting and integration. Along the way, the two built Bank of America to become the country's largest bank in terms of deposits...
...never ensure a vaccine is completely safe," says Hugh Pennington, an emeritus professor of virology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. "Clinical trials are on the magnitude of thousands and can screen out common and mild reactions for the vaccine - fever and sore arms mostly. But if a vaccine causes a severe reaction in one in a million people, there's no way to test for that." (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...
Quotes About: "Wherever I sent him, he always made money." - Former Bank of America head Hugh McColl, who dispatched Lewis, once his deputy, across the country to oversee bank acquisitions. (CNN.com...