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...Quite a few executives and high-ranking government officials have targeted the Obama administration’s involvement in the banking industry and in the auto industry as hurting, rather than helping, the economy’s recovery. According to them, the markets should self-regulate à la Adam Smith’s “invisible hand.” President Obama, owing mostly to his modest roots and his adoption of the philosophy that government has a place in preventing people from exploiting each other has been the visible hand that is regulating the excesses of Wall...
...LA Times has said that she had the best line in the first episode when she says, “Why should I bother getting dressed up if you are going to put me in the third row? Everyone knows that no one can see you from the third row.” Her friends know she is on TV, but she’s a NY private school kid. Her friends are on Broadway...
Haitian soil, already barren from decades of extensive deforestation, is now cracked with the bodies of her children. However, there is a Haitian saying that goes, “Ayiti di: ‘Mwen pran move kou! Men, pa pè, m ap toujou la.’ ” This translates to, “Haiti says: ‘I’ve taken bad hits! But, don’t be afraid, I will always be here.’” This saying reminds Haitians, the Haitian diaspora, and friends of Haiti...
...needs much help. A half-dozen men in the saloon, a dozen or more in a Main Street shoot-out, the whole Carnegie regiment ready to reduce to rubble the rural house Eli has holed up in with a grizzled couple (Brit theatrical giants Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour) and Solara - none of these armies can bring him down. One dastard gets it in the groin; another, through the neck. In a tense face-off, Carnegie's main henchman, Redridge (Ray Stevenson), has a gun on the unarmed Eli, who goes eye to eye with him and disarms...
...Orleans, La., and Cabot House