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...Acting seems like a big departure from broadcast journalism, which was your major in college. Is it that much of a departure? I think Tom Brokaw would have been a wonderful actor. Brian Williams? Come on! Watch Brian Williams on Saturday Night Live and tell me where broadcast journalism is such a radical departure from acting. Pick anybody in your local news and throw them into any 8 o'clock TV show on Fox and you'd be surprised...
...cuts to boost domestic demand. "Rebuilding the Japanese economy is an issue of utmost urgency," Aso said in his first policy speech. China, which could see its GDP growth rate fall below 10% next year for the first time since 2002, is widely expected to announce a major stimulus package at an October plenum of the Communist Party...
...Steep declines in asset values pose not only a worry for economic growth, but also social stability, as ordinary folk watch their personal wealth evaporate. In China, the property sector accounts for 10% of national employment. Analysts believe that Beijing cannot afford a major collapse in the property market and will step in to aid developers and home buyers. Beijing already lent a hand to the faltering stock market in September by waiving taxes on some stock transactions to stimulate trading and ordering state agencies to buy up shares...
...sneered that Rogoff didn’t realize that for Harvard students accustomed to jobs at the upper echelon of finance, the usual recruiting suspects remain alive, if not quite well. Indeed, of the behemoths that have gone under in the past months, only Lehman Brothers was a major recruiter at Harvard. The most sought-after financial recruiters—namely Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Citigroup—have survived the recent turmoil and have shown their health by buying up the dismembered parts of other firms. If these three remain strong in the coming years (all, including Citi...
...Giovanni Cipollini, who heads Pietrasanta's local pro-resistance association, said he had offered to put Lee in touch with partisans who were present, but that the director refused. "This is very delicate," he says. "When a famous director makes a major movie about a chapter in history, people will believe that his version is the truth." Cipollini led a group distributing flyers of protest at Wednesday's screening in Viareggio, near the setting of the film...