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Raging Bull (1980). Realism so intense it transcends and transforms the ugly banalities of boxer Jake La Motta's life. The talents of Robert De Niro and director Martin Scorsese turn the film into a crazy-angry vision of the American Lower Depths...
...esteem of the thrift industry for his consistently low estimates of the extent of the savings and loan debacle. He is a stolid former city planner from Salt Lake City whose only extravagance seems to be his natty suits and monogrammed shirts. As the top aide to Republican Senator Jake Garn of Utah when Garn was chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Wall became a favorite of S & L owners. Says Senator Leach of Wall's 1987 appointment: "The industry got to choose outright its regulator...
...bomb was allowed to keep ticking for two more years. Fortunately for Keating, FHLBB head Gray was replaced by the very sympathetic M. Danny Wall, a former aide to Utah's Republican Senator Jake Garn. Wall transferred responsibility for Lincoln from San Francisco to Washington. At House Banking Committee hearings on Oct. 17, L. William Seidman, head of the Resolution Trust Corp. and chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, criticized Wall for keeping Lincoln open. As a result, the federally guaranteed cost of paying back Lincoln's depositors went up $1.3 billion, to $2.5 billion. Nationwide, the whole debacle...
...Grays [Hall] is the kick-ass dorm," yells Jake Silverman, running up the stairs to his third-floor room...
...daze. You just go around and meet people. It's a little hard at first. Names don't mean anything," Silverman says. "I have met so many people and they come up to me in the Yard and say "Hey, Jake," and I don't have a clue what their name is, but if you wait too long to ask you just have to skip...