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Mona Lisa Smile stars Julia Roberts as a free-spirited and idealistic Berkeley graduate who comes to the conservative all-women’s college in the 1950s to teach art history. Her unconventional teaching methods both inside and outside the classroom inspire her traditional-minded students, including Joan (Julia Stiles) and Betty (Kirsten Dunst), to challenge their pre-determined futures as they come...
...prosecute organized-crime kingpins to argue the case. Commenting on the Justice Department's actions, Thomas says, "They have done everything they could to make this tribe out to be criminals when all we are is struggling to survive." --With reporting by Laura Karmatz/New York and research by Joan Levinstein, Mitch Frank and Nadia Mustafa
...unrelated bill that gave the Lyttons their reservation. Later, there would be outrage over the amendment. Frank Wolf, a Republican Congressman from Virginia, called it a disgrace. But for 200 Lyttons and their backers, it's an American success story. --With reporting by Laura Karmatz/New York and research by Joan Levinstein, Mitch Frank and Nadia Mustafa...
...position is they’re of course welcome to protest peacefully outside,” said Joan Grenier, co-owner of Odyssey. “That’s absolutely their right...
...types gaped with the nonstop corporate scandals of the past year, as companies had to pay higher yields to entice wary investors. Although that spread has narrowed a little (10-year corporates now pay about 1.3 percentage points more than 10-year Treasuries), it's still attractive, says Joan Payden of Paydenfunds. Bond bulls like Payden argue that a mid-investment-grade corporate-bond fund yielding 6% to 7% isn't overly risky if beating money-market yields is your goal. There's a cushion (the higher yields) should bond prices decline moderately, as they would in a typical economic...