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American humorist Josh Billings once said, "Remember the poor, it costs nothing." The quip sounds close to the apparent sentiment among G-7 economic policymakers who met in Washington over the weekend to craft measures aimed at bailing out Western banks amid the global financial crisis...
...first we get hints that Stone is up to his nifty old tricks. It's a hazing session of Yale's Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where the forced guzzling of whiskey is the gentleman scholar's equivalent of waterboarding. The other pledges are frightened, but Dubya (Josh Brolin, who's game but not great) impresses his brothers by not only rattling off their names but also appending a goofy nickname to each. In two lightning strokes, W. provides a reference point for the Bush Administration's interrogation techniques of terrorist suspects and imagines an early example of Bush's frat...
...Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of University Endowment Success”—a study written by Business School professor Josh Lerner, MIT professor Antoinette Schoar, and MIT doctoral student Jialan Wang—found an “increasing skewness of endowment sizes,” as rich universities continue to outperform less wealthy academic institutions...
...exodus has begun. Over the summer, Atlanta Hawks forward and rising star Josh Childress became the first prominent NBA player to go overseas to play basketball. After Childress’ move to the Greek club basketball team Olympiacos, every other American pro-baller might be asking themselves the same question: Should I leave the NBA for more money? While some European teams do not have the financial backing, other better funded teams will surely try to bait American players with hefty contracts. In fact, some major NBA stars have already voiced interest in accepting the European offers...
...JOSH GROBAN sings TV-theme-song medley at Emmys...