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Economics Professor Martin S. Feldstein ’61 will step down after 22 years on the board of directors at American International Group, an embattled international insurance company that has received billions in government bailout funding...
...language that everyone agreed upon was real estate, and the property frenzy was soon dragging in locals and newcomers alike. Nightclub promoters became fund managers overnight, simply by collecting money from their pub mates back home. "It's not rocket science," says Martin Rumney, a 44-year-old former golf instructor from Britain turned Dubai real estate agent. "This is pretty easy money. You just have to be a people person...
...start of the modern era was particularly good for Italian and American cinema: Italian films took home the award four times straight, from 1966 to 1972, and twice again in 1977-78. Italian-American heavyweights Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver, 1976) and Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now, 1979) took the glory for the U.S. and even Bob Fosse joined in at the start of the 1980s with All That Jazz. But critics would snipe that truly great films (and directors) were being overlooked: there would be no Cannes love for Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul),Werner Herzog (Every...
...lost. Most Southern states still recognize Confederate Memorial Day as an official holiday, and many celebrate it on the June birthday of Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederacy. But Texas, for one, observes the holiday on Robert E. Lee's birthday, Jan. 19 - which also happens to be Martin Luther King...
Well, there were all these ... there were a bunch of things said right after the election about ... that really ... Michel Martin on NPR is the one that stands out ... about people are talking about what Michelle Obama is going to have to give up in her identity and her independence and her paycheck and her life. And I remember thinking that, Well, it's quite a trade, given the kind of power you're going to ... to do the things that you care about that you're going to be doing...