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...choose the role? Paul Greengrass asked me to read the book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City, which is kind of just a backdrop for the movie. It's about the early mobile exploitation teams and the soldiers, including Matt [Damon], who go in to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and don't have a lot of luck. I think what Paul was attracted to was all that Americanism integrated in such a strange and unusual small area of Iraq - that early combination of those two worlds colliding...
...credit crunch had surfaced several months before the stock-market crash, when commercial banks with combined deposits of more than $80 million suspended payments. It reached critical mass in late 1930, when 608 banks failed - among them the Bank of the United States, which accounted for about a third of the total deposits lost. (The failure of merger talks that might have saved the bank was another critical moment in the history of the Depression...
...isolated, too insular. They don't translate enough and don't really participate in the big dialogue of literature.' HORACE ENGDAHL, member of the Nobel Literature award jury, criticizing American writers for being "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture...
...saying I'm an impressionable tool of mass propaganda, but those recent Microsoft ads really got to me. While some folks hated the (short-lived) Bill Gates--Jerry Seinfeld series that kicked off the campaign, it cracked me up. It also got my attention, and the subsequent "I'm a PC" ads closed the deal: I've been thinking maybe it's time to buy a laptop...
...there are many reasons mass-market business reporters might not answer this question of degree. Maybe nobody really knows. (In which case, they have an obligation to say unambiguously: nobody really knows.) Maybe they fear creating a panic, and at the same time fear not having anticipated a disaster if it happens, so they cover all bases, leaving their audience confused in the process...